Michael Nyman Filmes

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...

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...

In 1263, King James I of Aragon organizes a debate between representatives of Judaism and Christianity regarding whether or not Jesus was the Messiah.

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

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

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

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.

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...

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,...

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.

During 1950, Miguel Contreras Torres led a group of filmmakers to officially denounce William O. Jenkins' monopoly on film theaters, which was built...

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

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.

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

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

A numerical journey through the quaint village of Goole.

A short film by Peter Greenaway.