Phil Grabsky

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

    • 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

Series

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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)

References

  1. ^ "In Search of Mozart, Barbican, London". The Independent. 8 January 2006. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Escape from Luanda (DVD) - The Classical Source". 21 June 2008. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
  3. ^ "Show me the Manet: Would you pay to see art in the cinema?". BBC News. 9 April 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Pompeii exhibit to be disaster movie of the summer". The Independent. 4 February 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
  5. ^ "Our Films". exhibitiononscreen.com. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
  6. ^ "A Child of Afghanistan: 20 Years of War".
  7. ^ "SBS, al Jazeera, SVT pick up Afghanistan doc My Childhood from Bomanbridge".
  8. ^ "My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan".