Peter Greenaway Movies

Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch prophesies the events of 1492, the start of the modern world.

A short film which has its emphasis on back street walls with peeling posters and the constant pedestrian traffic in the foreground. It has a static...

Documentary about Sir Terence Conran, an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer.

A personal essay on the legacy of Martin Luther on the basis of 16th-Century drawings and paintings where the director draws parallels with today's...

Documentary film by Peter Greenaway made for Thames Television, in which people who have survived being struck by lightning relate their experiences...

A revisionist biopic on Charles Darwin, illustrated via 18 tableaux covering details from Darwin's birth, his defining voyage on the HMS Beagle, the...

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway

A numerical journey through the quaint village of Goole.

Greenaway's virtually unseen first film is described by the director as "a work of juvenalia" shot in four London cemeteries, focusing on "church...

A short ironic film about a missing nail in the iconography of Christ and his depiction in da Vinci’s painting of The Last Supper.

Searching for the roots of Peter Greenaway in his films, this artful documentary begins with a workshop from 1991 in which Peter Greenaway discusses...

Peter Greenaway's short film for Raffles Hotel

Calligraphy on water. The first joint work of director Peter Greenaway and composer David Lang.

Peter Greenaway remembers his first meeting with Rotterdam Film Festival director Hubert Bals.

Greenaway's profile of one of Savile Row’s best regarded tailoring establishments, Kilgour, French & Stanbury, placing Britain at the helm of...

Peter Greenaway discussing a variety of topics, with each segment ranging in length from 6s to 2m47s.

Ostensibly, a film about a child's pictorial alphabet stuck on the letter H.

The film comprises one hundred sequences showing a location in the city of Geneva, Switzerland. In 1994, over a period of one hundred days, one...

A promotional film advertising a British tie dye expert’s book in the 60s when it was the fashion.