Michael Nyman Movies

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

A lone man avenges the death of his father.

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

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

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.

A short film by Peter Greenaway.

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...

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

A numerical journey through the quaint village of Goole.