Cinema: Peter Greenaway

Date Of Birth: 4 April 1942, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom

Born in Wales and educated in London, Peter Greenaway trained as a painter for four years, and started making his own films in 1966.
He now lives in Amsterdam. He has continued to make cinema in a great variety of ways, which has also informed his curatorial work and the making of exhibitions and installations in Europe from the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice and the Joan Miro Gallery in Barcelona to the Boymans van Beuningen Gallery in Rotterdam and the Louvre in Paris.

He has made 12 feature films and some 50 short-films and documentaries, been regularly nominated for the Film Festival Competitions of Cannes, Venice and Berlin, published books, written opera librettos, and collaborated with composers Michael Nyman, Glen Branca, Wim Mertens, Jean-Baptiste Barriere, Philip Glass, Louis Andriessen, Borut Krzisnik and David Lang.
His first narrative feature film, The Draughtsman's Contract, completed in 1982, received great critical acclaim and established him internationally as an original film maker, a reputation consolidated by the films, The Cook, the Thief, his Wife & her Lover and The Pillow-book, and most recently by The Tulse Luper Suitcases.

On June 17 2005 Peter Greenaway demonstrated in Club 11 Amsterdam his first VJ performance during the NoTV CNCDNC visual art club evening.
On music by DJ Serge Dodwell (aka Radar), 'VJ' Greenaway used for his set a special VJ system consisting of a large plasma screen with touchscreen.
Utilizing this system, Greenaway projected the 92 Tulse Luper stories on the 12 screens of Club 11 in a multi-screen way and mixed the images 'live'.
The tremendous succes of this performance made NoTV and Peter Greenaway decide to take the performance to a next level, and bring it to the international audience by starting the official "NoTV Peter Greenaway Tulse Luper VJ World Tour".

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Filmography:

• 55 Men On Horseback (TBA)
• Augsbergenfeld (TBA)
• Untitled Science-Fiction Project (TBA)
• The Love Child (TBA)
• Goltzius (TBA)
• Untitled Japanese Ghost Story Project (TBC)
• Untitled Old Testament Project (TBC)
• Tales From The Nursery (TBC)
  
• Peopling The Palaces At Venaria Reale (original title: Ripopolare La Reggia) (2007, 180')
  
• Nightwatching (2007, 134')
• The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (2003, 127’)
• The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux To The Sea (2003, 108’)
• The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark To The Finish (2003, 120’)
• 8½ Women (1999, 118’)
• The Pillow Book (1996, 126’)
• The Baby Of Mâcon (1993, 122’)
• Prospero's Books (1991, 129’)
• The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989, 123’)
• Drowning By Numbers (1988, 118’)
• The Belly Of An Architect (1987, 120’)
• A Zed & Two Noughts (1985, 115’)
• The Draughtsman's Contract (1982, 108’)
• The Falls (1980, 185’)

Short Films:

• Visions Of Europe (Fragment "The European Showerbath", 2004, 5’)
• The Man In The Bath (2001, 7’)
• The Bridge (1997, 12’)
• Lumière Et Compagnie (Fragment "Peter Greenaway", 1996, 55’‘)
• Rosa (1992, 15’)
• Hubert Bals Handshake (1989, 5’)
• Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire (1985, 26’)
• Making A Splash (1984, 25’) 1-100 (1978, 4’)
• A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation Of An Ornithologist (1978, 41’)
• Vertical Features Remake (1978, 45’)
• Dear Phone (1977, 17’)
• Goole By Numbers (1976, 40’)
• Water (1975, 5’)
• Water Wrackets (1975, 12’)
• Windows (1975, 4’)
• H Is For House (1973, 10’)
• Erosion (1971, 27’)
• Intervals (1969, 7’)
• 5 Postcards From Capital Cities (1967, 35’)
• Revolution (1967, 8’)
• Train (1966, 5’)
• Tree (1966, 16’)
• Death Of Sentiment (1962, 8’)

Documentaries:

• Rembrandt's J'accuse (2008, 86')
• Fear Of Drowning (Channel Four Television, 1988, 26’)
• The Coastline (1983)
• Four American Composers (Channel Four Television, 1983, 220’)
• Terence Conran (1981, 15’)
• Country Diary (1980, 5’)
• Lacock Village (1980, 5’)
• Leeds Castle (1979, 5’)
• Women Artists (1979, 5’)
• Zandra Rhodes (1979, 15’)
• Cut Above The Rest (1978, 5’)
• Eddie Kid (1978, 5’)

Television:

• The Death Of A Composer: Rosa, A Horse Drama (1999, 90’)
• Darwin (French TV, 1993, 52’)
• A Walk Through Prospero's Library (1992)
• M Is For Man, Music, Mozart (1991, 29’)
• A TV Dante Cantos 1-8 (Mini-Series, 1989, 8x10’)
• Death In The Seine (French TV, 1988, 44’)
• Act Of God (Thames TV, 1980, 25’)

Exibitions:

• Stairs 1 (1995, Geneva)
• 100 Objects To Represent The World (1992, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna/the Hofburg Imperial Palace Vienna)
• The Physical Self (1991, museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam)

Bibliography:

• The Falls (Disvoir, Paris, 1993) (English & French)
• The Baby Of Macon (Rogner & Bernhard, (English & French), Hamburg, 1993 (German) Disvoir, Paris, 1994)
• Rosa (Disvoir, Paris, 1993) (English & French)
• Watching Water (Electa, Milan, 1993) (English & Italian)
• Prospero's Subjects (Yobisha & Co, Japan, 1992)
• Prospero's Books (Chatto & Windus, London, 1991) (English)
• The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Disvoir, Paris, 1989) (English & French)
• Fear Of Drowning (Disvoir, Paris, 1988) (French)
• Drowning By Numbers (Faber & Faber, London, 1988) (English)
• Belly Of An Archictect (Faber & Faber, London, 1987) (English)
• A Zed And Two Noughts (Faber & Faber, London, 1986) (English & Finnish)
• The Draughtsman's Contract (L'avant-Seine, Paris, 1984) (English & French)

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Downloads:

Four American Composers (Channel Four Television, 1983, 220’):
John Cage
Philip Glass
Meredith Monk
Robert Ashley

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Links:
Peter Greenaway (Official)
The Cinematic Endeavours Of Peter Greenaway
The Early Films Of Peter Greenaway