Peter Greenaway CBE, one of Britain’s most ambitious and controversial directors, looks back on his a filmmaking career spanning 50 years, musing on the essence of cinema, the notion of realism and “the enslavement of narrative.”

After initially training as a painter, Greenaway began making his own films in 1966 with his first short Death of Sentiment, before making films including: The Draughtsman’s Contract, A Zed & Two Noughts, Drowning by Numbers, the controversial but critically acclaimed, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, starring Helen Mirren, and his latest film Eisenstein in Guanajuato. He received a BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema in 2014.

Greenaway’s other credits include art installations & exhibitions, documentaries and mockumentaries, opera and music theatre performances, and various television projects including 1990’s A TV Dante.

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