Phil Grabsky
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Phil Grabsky is a British documentary film-maker based in Brighton, East Sussex. His company Seventh Art Productions has produced documentaries for television and cinema.
Grabsky’s work such as I, Caesar, Spain - In the Shadow on the Sun, The Great Commanders and the Tim Marlow on... series, has been broadcast on various U.K. channels such as BBC, Channel 4, Five and Sky Arts, and internationally around the world.
His film The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan was released in cinemas in 2003 and tells the story of 8-year-old Mir and his family living in post-Taliban Afghanistan. The film has been shown across the globe and won 13 awards including the Gold Hugo in Chicago for Best Film and first prize at the Valladolid International Film Festival. Phil is continuing to film Mir and his family in Afghanistan.
2006 saw the completion of In Search of Mozart. The film illustrates the life and work of the composer through interviews and live performance. The film premiered at London’s Barbican concert hall. Subsequently it has gone on to become one of the top 100 grossing documentaries in Australia.
Heavy Water: A Film for Chernobyl (2006) explores the Chernobyl nuclear disaster through Mario Petrucci’s poetry. Phil worked in conjunction with director David Bickerstaff for this project which went on to win Best Short Documentary at the Cinequest International Film Festival.
In 2007 Grabsky completed Escape from Luanda which tells the tale of three students at Angola’s only music school.
Phil Grabsky's most recent film In Search of Beethoven, focusing on the life and work of the German composer was released in 2009.
In addition to making films, Phil has released four books and often serves as a judge for various awards including BAFTA, Emmys, RTS and the One World awards.
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Films (53)
Exhibition on Screen: Monet
2027 · Director
James McNeill Whistler
2026 · Producer
Turner & Constable
2026 · Producer
Caravaggio
2025 · Director
Dawn of Impressionism: Paris 1874
2025 · Producer
Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers
2024 · Producer
My National Gallery, London
2024 · Director, Producer, Writer, Executive Producer
John Singer Sargent: Fashion and Swagger
2024 · Producer
Klimt & The Kiss
2023 · Producer
Vermeer : la plus grande exposition
2023 · Executive Producer
Edward Hopper : Une histoire américaine
2022 · Director, Producer, Cinematography, Writer
Pissarro: Father of Impressionism
2022 · Director
Raphael Revealed
2021 · Director
My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan
2021 · Director, Producer
Easter in Art
2020 · Director
Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait
2019 · Producer
Leonardo: The Works
2019 · Writer, Executive Producer, Director
Young Picasso
2019 · Director
Rembrandt: From the National Gallery, London and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
2018 · Producer, Writer
Cézanne: Portraits of a Life
2018 · Writer, Director
David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts
2017 · Director
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism
2017 · Director
El fascinante mundo de El Bosco
2017 · Director
I, Claude Monet
2017 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
2016 · Director
Renoir: Reviled and Revered
2016 · Director, Director of Photography
Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
2016 · Executive Producer, Producer
Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood
2016 · Writer
Concerto: A Beethoven Journey
2015 · Director
The Impressionists: And the Man Who Made Them
2015 · Director
Vincent Van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing
2015 · Director
Girl with a Pearl Earring: And Other Treasures from the Mauritshuis
2015 · Producer
Matisse
2014 · Director
In Search of Chopin
2014 · Director, Writer
Vermeer and Music
2013 · Director
Munch 150
2013 · Executive Producer
Manet: Portraying Life
2013 · Director
Leonardo: From the National Gallery, London
2012 · Writer, Director
In Search of Haydn
2012 · Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
The Boy Mir
2011 · Director
Making War Horse
2009 · Director, Producer
In Search of Beethoven
2009 · Director
Escape from Luanda
2007 · Director
Heavy Water: A Film for Chernobyl
2007 · Writer
In Search of Mozart
2006 · Director, Writer, Cinematography
The Boy who plays On The Buddhas Of Bamiyan
2004 · Director, Cinematography
The Surprising History of Sex and Love
2002 · Director, Writer
The Hidden History of Egypt
2002 · Director
The Hidden History of Rome
2002 · Director
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
2001 · Director
Nero's Golden House
2001 · Writer, Director
Julius Caesar: Master of the Roman World
1993 · Director, Writer, Producer
Manet
· Director of Photography
