Michael Nyman Movies

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...

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...

Nanako returns to her hometown on the tiny island of Aguni to meet her grandmother Nabbie. However, when Nanako's ferry arrives, it is also carrying...

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...

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

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

Detroit, known as Motor City, once the fourth largest city in the United States, home of the Ford Motor Company, General Motors and other major car...

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,...

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.

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

Told in the form of a mock documentary in 92 short parts, nineteen million people are left obsessed with birds and flight following a strange...

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

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

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...

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

Faking an injury for insurance money, a peddler seeks out a cure to support his claims while a suspicious investigator tries to expose the scam.

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 lone man avenges the death of his father.

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