Directing
Peter Symes
Known for
Directing
Credits
3 titles
Known for
NRA film-poem written in response to the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
The Blasphemers' Banquet
1989
10.0A play written by Tony Harrison as a tribute to sufferers of Alzheimer's disease. Filmed in High Royds Hospital, Menston, Yorkshire, the play combines drama, documentary, song, verse and music to unravel the lives of the residents.
Black Daisies For The Bride
1993
NRFilm poem by Tony Harrison which takes the figure of the Gorgon as a metaphor for the "freedom-fixing politics" which have been responsible for so much conflict this century. It starts in 1992 Frankfurt where Harrison speaks through the mouth of the statue of the German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine. At Corfu in Greece he tells of the link between Heine, the Greek Gorgon and Kaiser Wilhelm II.
The Gaze of the Gorgon
1992
Behind the camera
NRA film-poem written in response to the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
The Blasphemers' Banquet
1989
10.0A play written by Tony Harrison as a tribute to sufferers of Alzheimer's disease. Filmed in High Royds Hospital, Menston, Yorkshire, the play combines drama, documentary, song, verse and music to unravel the lives of the residents.
Black Daisies For The Bride
1993
NRFilm poem by Tony Harrison which takes the figure of the Gorgon as a metaphor for the "freedom-fixing politics" which have been responsible for so much conflict this century. It starts in 1992 Frankfurt where Harrison speaks through the mouth of the statue of the German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine. At Corfu in Greece he tells of the link between Heine, the Greek Gorgon and Kaiser Wilhelm II.
The Gaze of the Gorgon
1992
