Grant Gee
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Grant Gangsta Gee is a film director and cinematographer currently residing in Brighton. He was born in Plymouth and studied Geography at St Catherine's College, Oxford and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
He is most noted for his documentary about the British alternative rock group Radiohead, Meeting People Is Easy (1999), which followed the band on their tour for their highly acclaimed third album, OK Computer (1997). His son Alfie Gee was born during the making of the film.
In the early 1990s he had worked on U2's Zoo TV and Zoo Radio, and collaborated with Mark Neale on several projects (many through London production company Kudos Productions), including "The Memory Palace", an experimental multi-media project combining film and live performance for the Expo '92.
In 1996 he directed a twenty-seven minute short film commissioned by progressive house band Spooky for parts of their album "Found Sound" (namely the tracks "Central Heating", "Bamboo", "Aphonia", "Lowest Common Denominator", "Hypo-Allergenic"/"Interim"). The film was displayed on a continuous loop outside the Centre Georges Pompidou as part of its re-opening.
In 2000 he filmed the entirety of the Meltdown festival, curated that year by Scott Walker, and in 2002 he shot concert footage for Oasis. He also directed a 45-minute documentary for Oasis' Familiar to Millions DVD.
His short, more or less experimental films, including the onedotzero-commissioned "Tel Aviv City Symphony", the documentary "JC-03" about John Cale at work, and the dance film "Torsion" choreographed by Russell Maliphant, have been shown internationally as part of touring packages by the British Council, onedotzero and Film and Video Umbrella.
In April 2006 The Creative Commons-licensed film project A Swarm of Angels announced that Gee has joined the project team as Director of Photography.
Gee is currently developing "The Western Lands", a film based on Jim Perrin.
[edit] Filmography as director
- Found Sound (1996, 27 min)
- Meeting People Is Easy (1998, 95 min)
- "Among Giants" EPK (1998)
- (Tel Aviv) City Symphony (2000, 6 min)
- 400 Anarchists (2002, 20 min)
- JC-03 (2003, 30 min)
- Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'" (2005, 68 min)
- Demon Days: Live at the Manchester Opera House (2005, 70 min) (co-directed by David Barnard)
- Torsion (2005, 18 min)
- (Mr.) Fred Zentner's Cinema Bookshop Was Here (2005, 10 min)
- Joy Division (2006, 93 min)
- Cobra Bag (year unknown)
[edit] Music videos
Gee has directed a number of music videos including:
- Tom Waits - (title unknown)
- Spooky - "Stereo" from Stereo EP (1995)
- Spooky - "Shunt" from Shunt EP (1996)
- Spooky - "Fingerbobs" from Found Sound (1996)
- Radiohead - "No Surprises" from OK Computer (1997)
- Mansun - "Six" from Six (1999)
- Blur - "Tender" from 13 (1999)
- The Auteurs - "The Rubettes" from How I Learned to Love the Bootboys (1999)
- Jean-Louis Murat - "Jim" from Mustango (1999)
- Coldplay - "Shiver" from Parachutes (2000)
- Badly Drawn Boy - "Another Pearl" from The Hour of Bewilderbeast (2000)
- Mansun - "I Can Only Disappoint U" from Little Kix (2000)
- Idlewild - "Roseability" from 100 Broken Windows (2000)
- Les Innocents - " Le cygne" from Les Innocents (2000)
- Les Innocents - "Une vie moins ordinaire" from Les Innocents (2000)
- Les Innocents - "Danny Wilde" from Les Innocents (2000)
- Mansun - "Electric Man" from Little Kix (2000)
- Neil Finn - "Rest of the Day Off" from One Nil (2001)
- Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - "Discretion Grove" from Stephen Malkmus (2001)
- Embrace - "Wonder" from If You've Never Been (2001)
- Sparklehorse - "Devil's New" from It's a Wonderful Life (2001)
- Spooky - "Belong" from Belong single (2002)
- Badly Drawn Boy - "You Were Right" from Have You Fed The Fish? (2002)
- Suede - "Obsessions" from A New Morning (2002)
- The Datsuns - "Harmonic Generator" from The Datsuns (2003)
- The Kills - "Fried My Little Brains" from Keep on Your Mean Side (2003)
- Zero 7 - "Somersault" from When It Falls (2004)
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Nature Boy" from Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)
- Gorillaz - "White Light" from Demon Days: Live at the Manchester Opera House (2006) (co-directed by David Barnard)
- Morning Runner - "The Great Escape" from Wilderness Is Paradise Now (2006)
- Badly Drawn Boy - "Born in the U.K." from Born in the U.K. (2006)
- Luke Haines - "Off My Rocker at the Art School Bop" from Off My Rocker at the Art School Bop (2006)
[edit] External links
- Grant Gee at the Internet Movie Database
- Grant Gee at the Music Video DataBase
- Biography at the site of production company Oil Factory
- Restrospective at Cinecity: The Brighton Film Festival in 2005
