Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh writer-director, painter, and video artist based in Amsterdam. Throughout the late 1960s and '70s, he produced several experimental documentary/mockumentary shorts while working as a film editor for the Central Office of Information. This early period culminated in "The Falls" (1980), a three-hour mockumentary indexing the strange effects of the VUE (the Violent Unknown Event) on 92 people whose names begin with the letters F-A-L-L. He made his dramatic feature film debut with "The Draughtsman's Contract" (1982), and throughout the 1980s directed a string of critically acclaimed and frequently controversial films: "A Zed & Two Noughts" (1985), "The Belly of an Architect" (1987), "Drowning by Numbers" (1988), and his best-known work, the vicious Thatcher-era satire "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover" (1989). In the 1990s, he directed the Shakespeare adaptation "Prospero's Books" (1991), controversial religious satire "The Baby of Mâcon" (1993), erotic drama "The Pillow Book" (1996), and "8½ Women" (1999), an homage to the films of Federico Fellini, a major influence on Greenaway. In the early 2000s, Greenaway embarked on the ambitious "Tulse Luper" project, a multimedia body of historical fiction revolving around the life of the eponymous fictional hero. In addition to novels, CD-ROMs, online material, and a touring exhibition, the project spawned a trilogy of feature films: "The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story" (2003), "The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea" (2004), and "The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish" (2004). The trilogy was followed by a fourth feature, "A Life in Suitcases" (2005), which abridges the Tulse Luper saga into a single film. Since the mid 2000s, Greenaway's film work has focused on idiosyncratic, heavily fictionalised biopics dedicated to some of his favourite artists: Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt van Rijn in "Nightwatching" (2007), Dutch Baroque engraver Hendrik Goltzius in "Goltzius and the Pelican Company" (2012), Soviet Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein in "Eisenstein in Guanajuato" (2015), and Romanian-French sculptor Constantin Brâncuși in "Walking to Paris" (TBD). Greenaway has lived and worked in Amsterdam since the mid 1990s. He is married to artist Saskia Boddeke, with whom he has two children. He also has two children from a previous marriage to potter Carol Greenaway.
Peter Greenaway: A Documentary
(Himself)
Peter Greenaway: The Film Architect - Beyond The Belly of an Architect
(Himself)
The Falls
(Interviewer)
Windows
(Narrator)
H Is for House
((voice))
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
Dear Phone
(Narrator)
The Wedding at Cana
(Some characters (uncredited))
The Missing Nail
((voice))
Cinema16: British Short Films
(Self - Commentary, Dear Phone (voice))
Fear of Drowning
(Himself)
Close to Greenaway
(Self)
Hubert Bals Handshake
(Narrator)
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
(Himself / Public Prosecutor)
8 ½ Women
((uncredited))
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama
(Narrator)
The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway
(Himself)
The Greenaway Alphabet
(Peter Greenaway)
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
(Self)
Kulturplatz
(Self)
The Draughtsman's Contract
(Director)
The Draughtsman's Contract
(Screenplay)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
(Director)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
(Writer)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
(Director)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
(Writer)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
(Director)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
(Writer)
A Life in Suitcases
(Director)
A Life in Suitcases
(Writer)
Nightwatching
(Director)
Nightwatching
(Writer)
Prospero's Books
(Director)
The Baby of Mâcon
(Writer)
The Baby of Mâcon
(Director)
8 ½ Women
(Director)
8 ½ Women
(Screenplay)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
(Director)
A Zed & Two Noughts
(Director)
A Zed & Two Noughts
(Writer)
Visions of Europe
(Director)
The Pillow Book
(Director)
The Pillow Book
(Writer)
The Pillow Book
(Editor)
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
(Director)
Drowning by Numbers
(Director)
Drowning by Numbers
(Writer)
The Falls
(Director)
The Falls
(Writer)
Act of God
(Director)
The Belly of an Architect
(Director)
The Belly of an Architect
(Writer)
Dear Phone
(Director)
Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire
(Director)
Erosion
(Director)
Vertical Features Remake
(Director)
Vertical Features Remake
(Writer)
Death in the Seine
(Director)
Terence Conran
(Director)
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
(Director)
Four American Composers: Philip Glass
(Director)
Four American Composers: John Cage
(Director)
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
(Director)
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
(Writer)
A Walk Through H
(Director)
A TV Dante
(Director)
3x3D
(Director)
Giovanna D'Arco
(Stage Director)
Giovanna D'Arco
(Director)
Windows
(Director)
The Pledge
(Editor)
Intervals
(Director)
Darwin
(Director)
H Is for House
(Director)
H Is for House
(Writer)
Water Wrackets
(Director)
Water Wrackets
(Writer)
Four American Composers: Robert Ashley
(Director)
Four American Composers: Meredith Monk
(Director)
Hubert Bals Handshake
(Director)
Zandra Rhodes
(Director)
A Walk Through Prospero's Library
(Director)
The Sea in Their Blood
(Director)
The Sea in Their Blood
(Writer)
M Is for Man, Music and Mozart
(Writer)
M Is for Man, Music and Mozart
(Director)
The Missing Nail
(Director)
The European Showerbath
(Director)
Visions of Europe
(Writer)
The Wedding at Cana
(Director)
Walking to Paris
(Director)
Walking to Paris
(Writer)
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
(Screenplay)
Lumière & Company
(Director)
Revolution
(Director)
Making a Splash
(Director)
Writing on Water
(Director)
Writing on Water
(Writer)
Hotel Royalty Since 1887
(Director)
Rosa
(Director)
Goole by Numbers
(Director)
Goole by Numbers
(Writer)
1-100
(Director)
1-100
(Writer)
Fear of Drowning
(Director)
Peter Greenaway: A Documentary
(Director)
Death of Sentiment
(Director)
Tree
(Director)
Train
(Director)
Lucca Mortis
(Writer)
Zandra Rhodes
(Screenplay)
5 Postcards from Capital Cities
(Director)
Cinema16: British Short Films
(Director)
The Exile
(Director)
Intervals
(Writer)
The Missing Nail
(Screenplay)
The Man in the Bath
(Director)
Luther and His Legacy
(Director)
Vertical Features Remake
(Director of Photography)
Vertical Features Remake
(Editor)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp
(Director)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp
(Writer)
Water Wrackets
(Director of Photography)
Water Wrackets
(Editor)
Blondi
(Writer)
3x3D
(Writer)
Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth
(Director)
Prospero's Books
(Screenplay)
Bosch
(Writer)
Bosch
(Director)
The Food of Love
(Director)
The Food of Love
(Writer)
A Walk Through H
(Writer)
A Walk Through H
(Editor)
Four American Composers: John Cage
(Writer)
Four American Composers: Robert Ashley
(Writer)
Four American Composers: Meredith Monk
(Writer)
Four American Composers: Philip Glass
(Writer)
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama
(Director)
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama
(Writer)
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama
(Stage Director)
Windows
(Writer)
Windows
(Editor)
H Is for House
(Director of Photography)
H Is for House
(Editor)
Dear Phone
(Writer)
Dear Phone
(Director of Photography)
Dear Phone
(Editor)
The Falls
(Editor)
The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway
(Director)
Eddie Kidd
(Director)
Eddie Kidd
(Editor)
Savile Row
(Director)
Leeds Castle
(Director)
Tie and Dye
(Editor)
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
(Producer)
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
(Screenplay)
Lucca Mortis
(Director)
Stairs 1 Geneva
(Director)
A Walk Through H
(Scenic Artist)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
(Screenplay)
Darwin
(Writer)
A TV Dante
(Director)