Michael Nyman Movies

In 1263, King James I of Aragon organizes a debate between representatives of Judaism and Christianity regarding whether or not Jesus was the Messiah.

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...

This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few...

Two show-business women leave Los Angeles for Las Vegas, but phoney state troopers abduct them in the desert and they are taken to a...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

A lone man avenges the death of his father.

A numerical journey through the quaint village of Goole.

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...

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

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