Michael Nyman Movies

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

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

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 film about fragility; about a man obsessed with photographing the accident who discovered that the fate of others was his way of connecting to...

a short film by @RockyPlanetesimal.

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.

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

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.

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...

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

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...

While working alongside his long-time friend and colleague in building a hospital for the residents of a Buenos Aries shantytown, a troubled priest...

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

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...

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

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,...