Phil Grabsky

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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…

Directed

1. American Masters (1986) — Director
2. Hopper: An American Love Story (2022) — Director
3. In Search of Mozart (2006) — Director
4. In Search of Beethoven (2009) — Director
5. The Surprising History of Sex and Love (2002) — Director
6. I, Claude Monet (2017) — Director
7. Easter in Art (2020) — Director
8. Leonardo: The Works (2019) — Director
9. Ancient Inventions (1998) — Director
10. Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World (2001) — Director
11. Vincent Van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing (2015) — Director
12. Caravaggio (2025) — Director
13. The Boy who plays On The Buddhas Of Bamiyan (2004) — Director
14. My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan (2021) — Director
15. The Impressionists: And the Man Who Made Them (2015) — Director
16. The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch (2016) — Director
17. Cézanne: Portraits of a Life (2018) — Director
18. The Hidden History of Egypt (2002) — Director
19. Making War Horse (2009) — Director
20. Concerto: A Beethoven Journey (2015) — Director
21. The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism (2017) — Director
22. Pissarro: Father of Impressionism (2022) — Director
23. Young Picasso (2019) — Director
24. The Hidden History of Rome (2002) — Director
25. In Search of Haydn (2012) — Director
26. Raphael Revealed (2021) — Director
27. Renoir: Reviled and Revered (2016) — Director
28. Julius Caesar: Master of the Roman World (1993) — Director
29. Manet: Portraying Life (2013) — Director
30. My National Gallery, London (2024) — Director
31. David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts (2017) — Director
32. Leonardo: From the National Gallery, London (2012) — Director
33. In Search of Chopin (2014) — Director
34. Escape from Luanda (2007) — Director
35. Vermeer and Music (2013) — Director
36. Nero's Golden House (2001) — Director
37. El fascinante mundo de El Bosco (2017) — Director
38. The Boy Mir (2011) — Director
39. Matisse (2014) — Director
40. The Impressionists with Tim Marlow (1998) — Director