Michael Nyman Movies

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

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...

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.

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

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...

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 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.

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...

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

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,...

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

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

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

A numerical journey through the quaint village of Goole.

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 short film by Peter Greenaway.

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 short film by @RockyPlanetesimal.