Peter Greenaway - biography

“I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.”

Peter Greenaway directed the following films:
Death of Sentiment (1962)
Train (1966)
Tree (1966)
5 Postcards from Capital Cities (1967)
Revolution (1967)
Intervals (1969)
Erosion (1971)
H Is for House (1973)
Water Wrackets (1975)
Water (1975)
Windows (1975)
Goole by Numbers (1976)
Dear Phone (1977)
1-100 (1978)
A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist (1978)
Cut Above the Rest (1978)
Eddie Kid (1978)
Vertical Features Remake (1978)
Leeds Castle (1979)
Women Artists (1979)
Zandra Rhodes (1979)
Country Diary (1980)
Lacock Village (1980)
The Falls (1980)
Terence Conran (1981)
The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982)
The Coastline (1983)
Making a Splash (1984)
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire, 1985 (1985)
The Belly of an Architect (1987)
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Fear of Drowning (1988)
Hubert Bals Handshake (1989)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989)
Prospero’s Books (1991)
Rosa (1992)
The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
Lumière et compagnie (1995)
Stairs 1 Geneva (1995)
The Pillow Book (1996)
The Bridge (1997)
8 ½ Women (1999)
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama (1999)
The Man in the Bath (2001)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (2003)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish (2003)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp (2003)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004)
Visions of Europe (2004)
A Life in Suitcases (2005)
Nightwatching (2007)
Peopling the Palaces at Venaria Reale (2007)
Rembrandt’s J’accuse (2008)


Peter Greenaway was photography director on the following films:
H Is for House (1973)
Water Wrackets (1975)
Windows (1975)
Dear Phone (1977)
Vertical Features Remake (1978)


Peter Greenaway contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Death of Sentiment (1962)
Train (1966)
Tree (1966)
5 Postcards from Capital Cities (1967)
Revolution (1967)
Intervals (1969)
Erosion (1971)
H Is for House (1973)
Water Wrackets (1975)
Water (1975)
Windows (1975)
Goole by Numbers (1976)
Dear Phone (1977)
1-100 (1978)
A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist (1978)
Cut Above the Rest (1978)
Eddie Kid (1978)
Vertical Features Remake (1978)
Leeds Castle (1979)
Women Artists (1979)
Zandra Rhodes (1979)
Lacock Village (1980)
The Falls (1980)
The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982)
The Coastline (1983)
Making a Splash (1984)
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire, 1985 (1985)
The Belly of an Architect (1987)
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Fear of Drowning (1988)
Hubert Bals Handshake (1989)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989)
Prospero’s Books (1991)
Rosa (1992)
The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
Stairs 1 Geneva (1995)
The Bridge (1997)
8 ½ Women (1999)
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama (1999)
The Man in the Bath (2001)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (2003)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish (2003)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp (2003)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004)
A Life in Suitcases (2005)
Nightwatching (2007)
Peopling the Palaces at Venaria Reale (2007)
Rembrandt’s J’accuse (2008)