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.
2021 | Hotel Royalty Since 1887 - Director |
2019 | The Missing Nail - Director |
2019 | The Missing Nail - Screenplay |
2019 | Tintoretto - Un ribelle a Venezia - Producer |
2017 | De erfenis van Luther - Director |
2016 | Giovanna D'Arco - Director |
2016 | Giovanna D'Arco - Stage Director |
2015 | Eisenstein in Guanajuato - Director |
2015 | Eisenstein in Guanajuato - Screenplay |
2014 | Goltzius & the Pelican Company - Director |
2014 | Goltzius & the Pelican Company - Writer |
2013 | 3x3D - Director |
2013 | 3x3D - Writer |
2012 | Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth - Director |
2009 | The Wedding at Cana - Director |
2008 | Rembrandt's J'Accuse...! - Director |
2008 | Rembrandt's J'Accuse...! - Screenplay |
2007 | Gece Bekçisi - Director |
2007 | Gece Bekçisi - Writer |
2005 | A Life in Suitcases - Director |
2005 | A Life in Suitcases - Writer |
2005 | Writing on Water - Director |
2005 | Writing on Water - Writer |
2004 | The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish - Director |
2004 | The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish - Writer |
2004 | Visions of Europe - Director |
2004 | Visions of Europe - Writer |
2004 | The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea - Director |
2004 | The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea - Writer |
2004 | The European Showerbath - Director |
2003 | The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp - Director |
2003 | The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp - Writer |
2003 | The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story - Director |
2003 | The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story - Writer |
2003 | Cinema16: British Short Films - Director |
2002 | The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway - Director |
2001 | The Man in the Bath - Director |
1999 | The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama - Director |
1999 | The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama - Stage Director |
1999 | The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama - Writer |
1999 | 8 ½ Women - Director |
1999 | 8 ½ Women - Screenplay |
1995 | Lumière et Compagnie - Director |
1995 | Tual Bedenler - Director |
1995 | Tual Bedenler - Editor |
1995 | Tual Bedenler - Writer |
1994 | Stairs 1 Geneva - Director |
1993 | The Baby of Mâcon - Director |
1993 | The Baby of Mâcon - Writer |
1992 | Darwin - Director |
1992 | Darwin - Writer |
1992 | Peter Greenaway: A Documentary - Director |
1992 | Rosa - Director |
1992 | A Walk Through Prospero's Library - Director |
1991 | M Is for Man, Music and Mozart - Director |
1991 | M Is for Man, Music and Mozart - Writer |
1991 | Prospero's Books - Director |
1991 | Prospero's Books - Screenplay |
1990 | A TV Dante - Director |
1989 | Death in the Seine - Director |
1989 | Aşçı, Hırsız, Karısı ve Aşığı - Director |
1989 | Aşçı, Hırsız, Karısı ve Aşığı - Screenplay |
1989 | Fear of Drowning - Director |
1989 | Hubert Bals Handshake - Director |
1988 | Drowning by Numbers - Director |
1988 | Drowning by Numbers - Writer |
1987 | Bir Mimarın Göbeği - Director |
1987 | Bir Mimarın Göbeği - Writer |
1985 | Hayvanat Bahçesi - Director |
1985 | Hayvanat Bahçesi - Writer |
1985 | Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire - Director |
1984 | Making a Splash - Director |
1983 | Four American Composers: John Cage - Director |
1983 | Four American Composers: Meredith Monk - Director |
1983 | Four American Composers: Robert Ashley - Director |
1983 | Four American Composers: John Cage - Writer |
1983 | Four American Composers: Meredith Monk - Writer |
1983 | Four American Composers: Robert Ashley - Writer |
1983 | The Sea in Their Blood - Director |
1983 | The Sea in Their Blood - Writer |
1983 | Four American Composers: Philip Glass - Director |
1983 | Four American Composers: Philip Glass - Writer |
1982 | Ressamın Kontratı - Director |
1982 | Ressamın Kontratı - Screenplay |
1982 | The Pledge - Editor |
1981 | Zandra Rhodes - Director |
1981 | Zandra Rhodes - Screenplay |
1981 | Terence Conran - Director |
1981 | The Exile - Director |
1980 | The Falls - Director |
1980 | The Falls - Editor |
1980 | The Falls - Writer |
1980 | Act of God - Director |
1979 | A Walk Through H - Director |
1979 | A Walk Through H - Editor |
1979 | A Walk Through H - Scenic Artist |
1979 | A Walk Through H - Writer |
1979 | Leeds Castle - Director |
1978 | Vertical Features Remake - Director |
1978 | Vertical Features Remake - Director of Photography |
1978 | Vertical Features Remake - Editor |
1978 | Vertical Features Remake - Writer |
1978 | Eddie Kidd - Director |
1978 | Eddie Kidd - Editor |
1976 | 1-100 - Director |
1976 | Goole by Numbers - Director |
1976 | 1-100 - Writer |
1976 | Goole by Numbers - Writer |
1976 | Dear Phone - Director |
1976 | Savile Row - Director |
1976 | Dear Phone - Director of Photography |
1976 | Dear Phone - Editor |
1976 | Dear Phone - Writer |
1975 | Water Wrackets - Director |
1975 | Windows - Director |
1975 | Water Wrackets - Director of Photography |
1975 | Water Wrackets - Editor |
1975 | Windows - Editor |
1975 | Water Wrackets - Writer |
1975 | Windows - Writer |
1973 | H Is for House - Director |
1973 | Intervals - Director |
1973 | H Is for House - Director of Photography |
1973 | H Is for House - Editor |
1973 | H Is for House - Writer |
1973 | Intervals - Writer |
1971 | Erosion - Director |
1967 | 5 Postcards from Capital Cities - Director |
1967 | Revolution - Director |
1966 | Train - Director |
1966 | Tree - Director |
1962 | Death of Sentiment - Director |
| Bosch - Director |
| Lucca Mortis - Director |
| The Food of Love - Director |
| Walking to Paris - Director |
| Tie and Dye - Editor |
| Blondi - Writer |
| Bosch - Writer |
| Lucca Mortis - Writer |
| The Food of Love - Writer |
| Walking to Paris - Writer |
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