Background
Gee was born in in Plymouth, Devon and studied Geography at Street Catherine"s College, Oxford.
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Grant Gee
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University of Illinois system. University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Street Catherine"s College.
Career
He is most noted for his 1998 documentary Meeting People Is Easy about the British alternative rock group Radiohead. He did postgraduate study at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. In the early 1990s Gee worked on U2"s Zoo television 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 "Foundation 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. Gee followed the band Radiohead whilst they were on tour for their highly acclaimed 1997 album Oklahoma Computer.
His short films including Tel Aviv City Symphony (commissioned by onedotzero), 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. Gee has also made music videos for British bands including Radiohead and Blur.
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.
In 2007, he made Western Lands, a ten-minute film about climbing the Old Manitoba of Hoy. In November 2010 Grant received funding from the United Kingdom Film Council "New In A New Town: David Bowie In Berlin" - a music documentary on Bowie"s Berlin period.
Achievements
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Gee"s 1998 documentary of the tour, Meeting People Is Easy, was nominated for a Grammy award for Best Long Form Music Video. In January 2011, Gee completed his film Patience: After Sebald based on Sebald"s The Rings of Saturn, which was accepted by the Vancouver International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival.
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