Michael Nyman Movies

The year is 1904; the setting is Cockshute Towers, one of England's stateliest homes. When the household is threatened with bankruptcy, both the...

In the 16th century, the daughter of a Spanish nobleman joins a convent and becomes a spiritual leader.

Alice is a promising young artist in Paris. Her boyfriend Franck, a boxer, has just moved in to her attic flat. Then her sister Elsa, a bored...

People claim to know an amnesiac who finds herself in a hotel with a suitcase full of cash.

Ute Lemper sings a collection of art songs by Michael Nyman based on texts by Paul Celan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Shakespeare and Arthur...

An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the...

Close to Greenaway takes us behind the scenes of the first part of the trilogy The Tulse Luper's Suitcases in Barcelona and Almeria. In this film,...

Three criminals pledge to free the soul of their friend from his gibbeted corpse in this short film based on 'The Highwayman' by Lord Dunsany.

During 1950, Miguel Contreras Torres led a group of filmmakers to officially denounce William O. Jenkins' monopoly on film theaters, which was built...

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

A disillusioned writer follows the intertwining stories of several people, but are they his own inventions or do they really exist?

Commissioned by the COI, Peter Greenaway made a biographical short film about fashion designer Zandra Rhodes.

Vertical Features Remake is a film by Peter Greenaway. It portrays the work of a fictional Institute of Reclamation and Restoration as they attempt...

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

A pixelated record of the ‘Legalize Pot’ rally in Hyde Park, with appearances by Allen Ginsberg, Heathcote Williams, David Medalla, etc.,...

Featuring unprecedented access to Michael Nyman's working life, this film shows one of the great composers of our time in all his diversity and...

Opera singer and professor Dr P is examined both in a clinic and in his home, as he suffers from a degeneration of the occipital lobe that allows him...

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

A film about fragility; about a man obsessed with photographing the accident who discovered that the fate of others was his way of connecting to...

A short film by Peter Greenaway.