Phil Grabsky
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Phil Grabsky is a British documentary film-maker.
His film In Search of Mozart was shown at the Barbican Concert Hall in 2006.[1]
Escape from Luanda (2007) is about three students at the only music school in Angola.[2]
His books include The Great Artists – co-authored with Tim Marlow – and The Great Commanders.[citation needed]
In 2009, Grabsky and his colleagues started Exhibition on Screen, a series of documentaries on art exhibitions. It began with 'Leonardo Live';[3] other topics include Pompeii,[4] van Gogh, Rembrandt, David Hockney, Frida Kahlo and Vermeer.[5]
Feature documentaries
[edit]- My National Gallery (2024) (co-directed with Ali Ray)
- Pissarro: Father of Impressionism (2022)
- My Childhood, My Country - 20 Years in Afghanistan (2021)
- The Danish Collector: Delacroix to Gauguin (2021)
- Sunflowers (2021)
- Easter in Art (2020)
- Frida Kahlo (2020)
- Raphael Revealed (2020)
- Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait (2020)
- Leonardo: The Works (2019)
- Van Gogh and Japan (2019)
- Young Picasso (2019)
- Degas: Passion For Perfection (2018)
- David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts (2017)
- Michelangelo: Love and Death (2017)
- The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism (2017)
- I, Claude Monet (2017)
- Canaletto and the Art of Venice (2017)
- The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch (2016)
- Painting the Modern Garden: from Monet to Matisse (2016)
- Concerto - A Beethoven Journey (2015)
- Renoir: Revered and Reviled (2015)
- Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood (2015)
- The impressionists and the Man Who Made Them (2015)
- Vincent van Gogh: a New Way of Seeing (2015)
- Girl with a Pearl Earring (2015)
- Matisse Live (2014)
- In Search of Chopin (2014)
- Rembrandt from the National Gallery (2014)
- Leonardo from the National Gallery (2014)
- Vermeer (2013)
- Munch (2013)
- Manet (2012)
- Leonardo Live (2012)
- In Search of Haydn (2012)
- The Boy Mir - Ten Years in Afghanistan (2011)
- In Search of Beethoven (2009)
- Escape from Luanda (2007)
- Heavy Water: A Film for Chernoby (2006)
- In Search of Mozart (2006)
- The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan (2003)
- Muhammad Ali – Through the Eyes of the World (2001)
Selected TV programmes
[edit]Series
[edit]- Great Art (2018–present)
- Judgement Day: Images of Heaven and Hell (2004)
- Great Artists with Tim Marlow (2003)
- The Impressionists (1998)
- I, Caesar – The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire (1997)
- Ancient Warriors (1994-1995)
- The Great Commanders (1993)
- Spain – In the Shadow of the Sun (1990)
One-offs
[edit]- Witness - A Child of Afghanistan: 20 Years of War (2021) 45 minute version of My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan co-directed with Shoaib Sharifi[6][7][8]
- Tim Marlow On..Highlights of the New Tate Modern (2006)
- The Hidden History of Rome – with Terry Jones (2001)
- The Hidden History of Egypt – with Terry Jones (2001)
- Brazil – An Inconvenient History (2000)
- The Lost Temple of Java (1999)
Publications
[edit]- The Great Artists: From Giotto to Turner by Grabsky and Tim Marlow (2002)
- The Lost Temple of Java by Grabsky (1999)
- I, Caesar: Ruling the Roman Empire by Grabsky (1997)
- The Great Commanders: Alexander, Caesar, Nelson, Napoleon, Grant and Zhukov by Grabsky (1995)
Awards
[edit]- My Childhood, My Country - 20 Years in Afghanistan (2021)
- Best Single Documentary - BAFTA Television Awards (2022)
- Best Documentary - Royal Television Society (2022)
- Phoenix Award for Best Documentary - Film Festival Cologne (2021)
- Best Documentary - Seminici Valladolid International Film Festival (2021)
- Golden Reel for Best Documentary - Tiburon Film Festival (2021)
- Best International Documentary - DC International Film Festival (2022)
- Student Jury Award - One World International Human Rights Film Festival (2022)
- Best Documentary Feature - San Luis Obispo International Film Festival (2022)
- Best Feature Documentary - Titan International Film Festival (2022)
- Best Feature Documentary - Bali International Film Festival (2022)
- Author's Documentary - URTI Grand Prix European Film Festival(2022)
- Exhibition on Screen: Matisse (2015)
- Royal Television Society Southern Awards - Best Non-broadcast (2015)
- The Boy Mir - 10 Years in Afghanistan (2011)
- Best Documentary - Santa Barbara International Film Festival[citation needed]
- Best Foreign Film - HumanDOC Documentary Film Festival, Poland[citation needed]
- Runner up: long documentary - Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival[citation needed]
- In Search of Beethoven (2009) – Shortlisted: Creative communication - Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards[citation needed]
- Escape from Luanda (2007) – Silver Award for Excellence - Park City Film Music Festival[citation needed]
- In Search of Mozart (2006) – Best Documentary - Dubrovnik Film Festival[citation needed]
- Heavy Water: A Film for Chernobyl (2006) – Winner – Special Mention - Ourense International Independent Film Festival[citation needed]
- The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan (2003)
- Best Film, Cinematography and Editing - Gold Hugo in Chicago[citation needed]
- First prize - Valladolid International Film Festival[citation needed]
- Best Original Score (Dimitri Tchamouroff) – RTS Awards[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ "In Search of Mozart, Barbican, London". The Independent. 8 January 2006. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ "Escape from Luanda (DVD) - The Classical Source". 21 June 2008. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ "Show me the Manet: Would you pay to see art in the cinema?". BBC News. 9 April 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ "Pompeii exhibit to be disaster movie of the summer". The Independent. 4 February 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ "Our Films". exhibitiononscreen.com. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ "A Child of Afghanistan: 20 Years of War".
- ^ "SBS, al Jazeera, SVT pick up Afghanistan doc My Childhood from Bomanbridge".
- ^ "My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan".
