Peter Greenaway  

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Peter Greenaway (born 5 April 1942 in Newport, Wales) is a British film director, screenwriter, and artist. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular. Common traits in his film are the scenic composition and illumination and the contrasts of costume and nudity, nature and architecture, furniture and people, sexual pleasure and painful death.

He is noted for his experimental style and films as The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.

Films

Features

• The Falls (1980)
• The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
• A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
• The Belly of an Architect (1987)
• Drowning by Numbers (1988)
• The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
• Prospero's Books (1991)
• The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
• The Pillow Book (1996)
• 8½ Women (1999)
• The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (2003)
• The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004)
• The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish (2004)
• A Life in Suitcases (edited version of The Tulse Luper Suitcases series) (2005)
• Nightwatching (2007)
• Goltzius and the Pelican Company (2012)
• Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)
• Walking to Paris (2018)

Shorts

• Death of Sentiment (1962)
• Tree (1966)
• Train (1966)
• Revolution (1967)
• 5 Postcards from Capital Cities (1967)
• Intervals (1969)
• Erosion (1971)
• H Is for House (1973)
• Windows (1975)
• Water Wrackets (1975)
• Water (1975)
• Goole by Numbers (1976)
• Dear Phone (1978)
• Vertical Features Remake (1978)
• A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist (1978)
• 1–100 (1978)
• Making a Splash (1984)
• Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire (1985)
• Hubert Bals Handshake (1989)
• Rosa: La monnaie de munt (1992)
• Peter Greenaway (1995) - segment of Lumière and Company
• The Bridge Celebration (1997)
• The Man in the Bath (2001)
• European Showerbath (2004) - segment of Visions of Europe
• Castle Amerongen (2011)
• Just in Time (2013) - segment of 3x3D

Documentaries and mockumentaries

• Eddie Kid (1978)
• Cut Above the Rest (1978)
• Zandra Rhodes (1979)
• Women Artists (1979)
• Leeds Castle (1979)
• Lacock Village (1980)
• Country Diary (1980)
• Terence Conran (1981)
• Four American Composers (1983)
• The Coastline (also known as The Sea in their Blood) (1983)
• Fear of Drowning (1988)
• The Reitdiep Journeys (2001)
• Rembrandt's J'Accuse (2008)
• The Marriage (2009)
• Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth (2011)

Television

• Act of God (1980)
• Death in the Seine (French TV, 1988)
• A TV Dante (mini-series, 1989)
• M Is for Man, Music, Mozart (1991)
• A Walk Through Prospero's Library (1992)
• Darwin (French TV, 1993)
• The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama (1999)

Exhibitions

• The Physical Self, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1991)
• 100 Objects to represent the World (1992) at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Hofburg Imperial Palace Vienna.
• Stairs 1 Geneva (1995)
• Flyga över vatten/Flying over water, Malmö Konsthall (16/9 2000 – 14/1 2001)
• Peopling the Palaces at Venaria Reale, Palace of Venaria (2007)
• Heavy Water, Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv (2011)
• Sex & The Sea, Maritiem Museum, Rotterdam (2013)
• The Towers/Lucca Hubris, Lucca (2013)