PROGRAMME NOTES GOYA VISIONS OF FLESH AND BLOOD A note from Executive Producer Thus when I heard that a wonderful curator Xavier Phil Grabsky Bray was finally bringing to fruition a long-held desire to mount the biggest and best Late Portraits show at 30 years ago I was working on a major series of films the National Gallery in London, it went without saying about modern Spain for the UK’s Channel 4. To make that we would do everything we could to feature it in the films properly my wife and I had moved to Spain an EXHIBITION ON SCREEN film. Our film looks beyond to learn the language and thoroughly explore the the later works to try and tell in 90 minutes the full land and its culture – both past and present. Living in story of surely one of the greatest artists in history. I’ll as we did meant there was one museum we leave you to make your own mind up but I hope you’ll spent a lot of time in: the Prado. end up agreeing with me. This spectacular museum captures just what a FILMED & DIRECTED BY DAVID BICKERSTAFF wonderful legacy of artists Spain has produced – and among those, one of the greatest, is Goya. Coming PRODUCED BY PHIL GRABSKY face to face with Goya’s paintings all those years ago MUSIC BY ASA BENNETT

left me with a desire one day to make a film about him.

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