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]

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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]

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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".