Michael Nyman Movies

A girl visiting modern day East Germany with her estranged father begins reliving the horrifying events that happened to a young girl living there...

Documentary film by Peter Greenaway made for Thames Television, in which people who have survived being struck by lightning relate their experiences...

An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the...

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...

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,...

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

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

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...

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

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

Engaging profile of legendary band leader, Edmundo Ros, who brought Latin American music to England in the 1930's. In the 1940's & 50's he became a...

Is as much a celebration of the world as its inspiration, Dziga Vertov's silent masterpiece, "Man With a Movie Camera," celebrates Soviet society....

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.

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

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

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 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,...

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.

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