Michael Nyman Movies

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...

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 comic drama about the weird and wonderful world of Salvador Dali and the Surrealists. This film charts Dali's meteoric rise from obscurity to the...

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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,...

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...

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

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

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

Engaging profile of legendary band leader, Edmundo Ros, who brought Latin American music to England in the 1930's. In the 1940's & 50's he became a...