Projects matching: Grant Gee

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A creative collaboration with Ashéninka producer Gregorio Santos Perez and English writer Iain Sinclair, the film follows their ancestors' footsteps to the Peruvian jungle. Their journeys flip between continents and centuries as the narrative is wrested by the Ashéninka people, to produce an original mediation – part documentary, part fiction – on fate, family and the search for Eldorado.

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They say freedom's only possible when there's nothing left to lose. But what, in the end, is the real cost of living?
In a city framed by capital and loss, ten unruly Londoners navigate their wild and wayward way, travelling on their own terms towards a co-existence far stronger than 'community'. On reclaimed land they find themselves on the right side of history, caught between two train tracks, the present tense and future hopes. They question who has stolen what from whom, and how things might be fixed, in an often contradictory rite of passage. Finding solidarity in resistance, they demand the right to go on.
An uncommon story told on common ground, Here for Life dances with a spirited grace and urgency, hovering between fiction and fact, attention and act.
Sometimes we simply need to hear our stories told by someone else...
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2019 - Filmmakers of the Present Competition - World premiere

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Based upon Orhan Pamuk’s 'The Museum of Innocence'. A film about Istanbul, love, memory and loss.
Venice Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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A richly textured essay film on landscape, art, history, life and loss, Patience (After Sebald) offers a unique exploration of the work of internationally acclaimed writer W.G. Max Sebald (1944 – 2001) via a walk through East Anglia tracking his most influential book, The Rings of Saturn. The much anticipated new feature by the Grierson Award-winning Director of Joy Division, Patience is the first film about Sebald internationally, marking ten years since the writer’s untimely death, and with contributions from major writers, artists and film-makers.

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In 1976 four young men from ruined post-industrial Manchester, England went to see the Sex Pistols. They formed a band called Joy Division. It was 'a right laugh'. Three years later it was a matter of art, life and death. Thirty years later they are enjoying a larger audience and more influence than ever before with a profound legacy that resonates fiercely in today’s heavily careerist music industry and over-mediated pop culture. Featuring the unprecedented participation of the surviving band members, this documentary tells their story of beauty and loss in the city.

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Scott Walker, labeled the 'greatest voice of his generation' was lead singer of 60s sensation The Walker Brothers (‘The Sun Aint’ Gonna Shine Anymore’, ‘No Regrets’, ‘Make It Easy on Yourself’). His fan club outnumbered the Beatles‚ in 1965. From 1967-1969 he released three UK top-ten solo albums (and one #1) but suffered terrible stage fright and performed one of the great disappearing acts in pop history.

Often rumoured to be living abroad, working as a cab driver or simply dead, he reemerges decades later with one of the most modern, ear-challenging music albums ever created. Scott Walker: 30 Century Man is a filmed record of that journey seen through his own eyes and those of his many fans including some of the most famous names in contemporary popular music who also appear including David Bowie, Sting and Radiohead.