The Greenaway Alphabet

  • Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Saskia Boddeke
  • Netherlands 2018
  • 68 minutes
  • Dutch, English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

 ‘Art is life and life is art' is the motto of 75-year old artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway so for (and with) his daughter Zoë he makes a blueprint of his life, shaped in an alphabet.  'A is for alphabet', 'No, A is for autism. Daddy, you are autistic. You don't even look me in the eyes when you talk to me. You have no friends!' 'That might be true, but then I might have no enemies either'.

Multimedia artist Saskia Boddeke, wife of Peter Greenaway, directs this unique portrait.

Feature-Length Debut


  • Director Saskia Boddeke
  • Production Julia Emmering
  • Cinematography Ruzbeh Babol, Sander Snoep, Saskia Boddeke
  • Editing Gys Zevenbergen
  • Music Luca D’Alberto, Borut Krzisnik
  • Source Wide House, Paris