Grant Gee
GRANT GEE received a Grammy nomination in 1997 for his documentary about Radiohead, Meeting People Is Easy. He also directed the iconic music video for the group's song No Surprises. His film Joy Division won the UK's Grierson Award for Best Theatrical Documentary (2008), while his film The Western Lands of the same year won Best Short Film at the Banff Film Festival. His 2012 film Patience (After Sebald), about W.G. Sebald's unclassifiable masterpiece, The Rings of Saturn, premiered at the New York Film Festival and enjoyed successful theatrical runs in both the UK and US. He is currently developing his first drama feature, an adaptation of Alison Moore's novel The Lighthouse.
Filmography
Musik-Videos:
1998 No Surprises - Radiohead
2000 Tender – Blur
Kurzfilme:
2003 Jc-03
2003 Tel Aviv City Symphony
2007 The Western Lands
Dokumentarfilme:
1998 Meeting People is Easy
2007 Joy Division
2012 Patience (After Sebald)
2015 Innocence of Memories
Innocence of Memories - Orhan Pamuk's Museum and Istanbul (2015)
Orhan Pamuk - Turkey's Nobel laureate for Literature - opens a museum in Istanbul. A museum that's a fiction: its objects trace a tale of doomed love in 1970's Istanbul. The film takes a tour of the objects as the starting point for a trip through love stories, landscapes and the chemistry of the city."Like many people, when I first visited Istanbul, I read Orhan Pamuk. From the very start, my view of the city was through the prism of his imagination. And I knew that Orhan had imagined a place called ‘The Museum of Innocence' and in 2008 had published a big novel of that name. More