Michael Nyman Movies

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

The resurrection of Zambia's national football team after losing 18 players in a plane crash in Gabon in 1993. A 18-year road of reconstruction until...

A numerical journey through the quaint village of Goole.

A girl visiting modern day East Germany with her estranged father begins reliving the horrifying events that happened to a young girl living there...

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

The hour before actors go on stage at the National Theatre in London is a performance in and of itself.

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,...

Film which explores the relationship of man to water, his mastery of the fear of drowning and accomplishments in swimming.

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

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...

A hot, thirsty man in the desert is tormented when the things he needs drop from the sky only to disappear again or hover out of his reach.

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.

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

A film made for the Central Office of Information concerning Britain's coastline, with music by Michael Nyman.

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

A lone man avenges the death of his father.

A song cycle combining texts written by World War I poets, most all of whom lost their lives during the war, chansons vieilles from European poets,...

While working alongside his long-time friend and colleague in building a hospital for the residents of a Buenos Aries shantytown, a troubled priest...

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