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.
Escape from Luanda is about three students at the only music school in Angola.
His books include The Great Artists – co-authored with Tim Marlow – and The Great Commanders.
In 2009, Grabsky and his colleagues started Exhibition on Screen, a series of documentaries on art exhibitions. It began with 'Leonardo Live'; other topics include Pompeii, van Gogh, Rembrandt, David Hockney, Frida Kahlo and Vermeer.
WWW seventh-art.com

Feature documentaries

Caravaggio My National Gallery Pissarro: Father of Impressionism My Childhood, My Country – 20 Years in Afghanistan The Danish Collector: Delacroix to Gauguin Sunflowers Easter in Art Frida Kahlo Raphael Revealed Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait Leonardo: The Works Van Gogh and Japan Young Picasso Degas: Passion For Perfection David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts Michelangelo: Love and Death The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism I, Claude Monet Canaletto and the Art of Venice The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch Painting the Modern Garden: from Monet to Matisse Concerto - A Beethoven Journey Renoir: Revered and Reviled Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood The impressionists and the Man Who Made Them Vincent van Gogh: a New Way of Seeing Girl with a Pearl Earring Matisse Live In Search of Chopin Rembrandt from the National Gallery Leonardo from the National Gallery Vermeer Munch Manet Leonardo Live In Search of Haydn The Boy Mir - Ten Years in Afghanistan In Search of Beethoven Escape from Luanda Heavy Water: A Film for Chernoby In Search of Mozart The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan
  • ''Muhammad Ali – Through the Eyes of the World''

Selected TV programmes

Series

One-offs

  • Witness - A Child of Afghanistan: 20 Years of War 45 minute version of My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan co-directed with Shoaib Sharifi
  • Tim Marlow On..Highlights of the New Tate Modern
  • The Hidden History of Rome – with Terry Jones
  • The Hidden History of Egypt – with Terry Jones
  • Brazil – An Inconvenient History
  • ''The Lost Temple of Java''

Publications

  • The Great Artists: From Giotto to Turner by Grabsky and Tim Marlow
  • The Lost Temple of Java by Grabsky
  • I, Caesar: Ruling the Roman Empire by Grabsky
  • The Great Commanders: Alexander, Caesar, Nelson, Napoleon, Grant and Zhukov by Grabsky

Awards