Test Short Film

Test Short Film

2025 • 7m • English • Subtitled in English • 12A

The cast and crew of a short film pose for a group photograph on a park bench. It's a bright winter's day.

Some longer text about the film

00:00, Saturday 21 March 2026
Screen 5, The Ashford Cinema

Shown as part of Short Film Programme 1

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

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.”