Michael Nyman Movies

Is as much a celebration of the world as its inspiration, Dziga Vertov's silent masterpiece, "Man With a Movie Camera," celebrates Soviet society....

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

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...

During the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O'Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his...

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

A short film by Peter Greenaway.

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.

A numerical journey through the quaint village of Goole.

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...

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

There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress,...

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

On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended...

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,...

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...

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

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

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...