Peter Greenaway’s first feature film THE DRAUGHTSMAN’S CONTRACT established him internationally as one of the most original and important film-makers of our times, a reputation consolidated by some 14 further feature films including THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER and PROSPERO’S BOOKS and THE PILLOW-BOOK, and now NIGHTWATCHING

He has made cinema in a great variety of ways, informing his making of exhibitions and installations in Venice, Barcelona, Rotterdam, the Louvre in Paris, the Hayward Gallery in London, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, in Valencia, Malmo, Budapest, Edinburgh, Parma, Milan, Vienna, Ljubljana, Antwerp and Athens. He has regularly been nominated for the Film Festival Competitions of Cannes, Venice and Berlin. He has published scripts, catalogues, novels, and short stories and written for the theatre and opera. He has been awarded the Legion d’Honeur and a CBE for services to cinema