Gee, Grant 1964

Grant Gee, born in Plymouth, Devon, in 1964, is a British film maker, photographer and cinematographer. He studied Geography at St Catherine's College, Oxford, and continued his postgraduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

Gee's work in the early 1990s included Zoo TV and Zoo Radio for the Irish rock band U2, and an experimental multi-media collaboration with Mark Neale for Expo ’92 that combined film with live performance.

His short film for the progressive house band Spooky played on a continuous loop outside the Centre Georges Pompidou as part of its re-opening in 1996.

His best known work is the documentary “Meeting People is Easy", in which Gee followed the British rock band Radiohead during their 1997 OK Computer tour. The film, released in 1998, received a Grammy award nomination for Best Long Form Music Video.

Gee directed the documentary Joy Division, which was written by the British journalist Jon Savage. The film, a chronological account of the Manchester band’s career featuring live performance footage and interviews with band members and their contemporaries, was released in 2007 to critical acclaim. It won a number of awards, including the 2008 Grierson award for Best Cinema Documentary, the Mojo Vision Award 2009, and the 2008 Audience Awards for Best Film at Gdansk and ‘In-Edit’ Barcelona.

Gee’s 2011 documentary film, “Patience (After Sebald), was based on the W G Sebald book “The Rings of Saturn”. It premiered at the New York Film Festival and also showed at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

In 2015, Gee collaborated with Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk on the documentary film “Innocence of Memories”, based on Pamuk’s book of the same title. The film received a special event screening at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival.