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00:00, Saturday 21 March 2026
Screen 5, The Ashford Cinema
Shown as part of Short Film Programme 1
Credits
Director(s)
Peter Greenaway
Writer(s)
Peter Greenaway
Producer(s)
David Payne
Director of Photography
Curtis Clark
Composer
Michael Nyman
Editor
NA
Production Designer
Bob Ringwood
Costume Designer
Sue Blane
Casting
Lucy Boulting
Principle Cast
Anthony Higgins
Janet Suzman
Anne-Louise Lambert
Hugh Fraser
Contact
N/A
Meet The Artist
Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942) is a British filmmaker and visual artist.
Greenaway’s notable feature films include The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982), The Belly of an Architect (1987), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Prospero’s Books (1991), and Nightwatching (2007). He has also created works in other mediums, notably the multimedia Tulse Luper Suitcases, documentaries, and several video installations. In 2014, he received the BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award.
Greenaway’s films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Mannerist painting in particular. Common traits in his films are the scenic composition and illumination and the contrasts of costume and nudity, nature and architecture, furniture and people, sexual pleasure and painful death. The BFI’s Screenonline describes him as “a philosopher of cinema,” and “an artist who is a believer in the subversive power of the image.”


