Adrian Moben
| Adrian Moben | |
|---|---|
 AdrianMabenInPompeii.png Adrian Moben in Pompeii (2022) | |
| Born | Adrian Mitchell Maben 30 June 1942 Chippenham, Wiltshire, England |
| 💀Died | 28 October 2025 (aged 83) Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France28 October 2025 (aged 83) |
| 💼 Occupation | Film and television director, writer, and producer |
| 👔 Employer | ORTF |
| Known for | Film documentaries on music and art |
| Notable work | Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972) |
Adrian Maben (1942–2025) was a British film and television director, writer, and producer.[1][2]
Maben directed a number of films and documentaries on music and art, in particular Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii in 1972, featuring the rock band Pink Floyd playing in the Roman amphitheatre at Pompeii.[3] He worked for the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF) between 1970 and 1973. Maben directed the news programme Soir 3 on France 3. He was born British but obtained French nationality.
In 1991, he was a conference speaker along with the director Robert Altman and the composer Carl Stone, chaired by the film historian Michel Renov.[4] A director's cut of Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii was re-edited by Maben in 2003, with additional images of the solar system.[5]
Maben made several documentary films on artists such as René Magritte (1978), Paul Delvaux (1987), and Hieronymus Bosch (2003), and the photographer Helmut Newton (1989).[1] In 2016, he held an exhibition at Pompeii in Italy.[6] He was described by David Gilmour as a "creative genius".
Filmography and television
Maben directed the following:[7][8][9]
- Opération Apollo[10] (1969)
- Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972)[11]
- Phonzeit (1975)
- Monsieur René Magritte (1978)[12]
- James Brown Soul Brother No. 1: The James Brown Story (1978)[13]
- Raoul Coutard in Étoiles et toiles (1982)
- Le petit théâtre de Bouvard (1982)
- Paul Delvaux: The Sleepwalker of Saint Idesbald (1987)[14]
- Le grand escalator (1987)
- Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge (1989)[15]
- A Window to Heaven (1990)[16]
- Riviera (1991)
- La case de l'oncle Doc (1997)
- The Khmer Rouge: Power and Terror (2001)
- Ourasi, le roi fainéant (2003)
- All Hell Let Loose: The Demonic World of Hieronymus Bosch (2003)
- Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (Director's Cut) (2003)[5]
- The Making of Ça Ira (2005)
- Comrade Duch: The Bookkeeper of Death (2011)
- Pink Floyd: Chit Chat with Oysters (2013)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Accidental Legend of Adrian Maben". Il Mattino. Italy. 6 November 2025. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
- ↑ Rapata, Tony (5 November 2025). "In Memoriam: Adrian Maben". pinkfloydz.com. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
- ↑ "Why Pink Floyd At Pompeii is a Must Watch – Music Documentary". Vinyl Rewind. YouTube. 2025. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
- ↑ Sound & Images in Films on Art: A Conference on Music and Sound in Films about the Visual Arts. University of California. 1991. pp. 31–32. Search this book on
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Reisch, George A., ed. (2007). Pink Floyd and Philosophy: Careful with that Axiom, Eugene!. Open Court. p. 55. ISBN 978-0812696363. Search this book on
- ↑ Gilmour, David (15 May 2025). "Gallery Walkthrough with Adrian Maben and Polly Samson". YouTube. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
- ↑ "Adrian Maben". IMDb. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
- ↑ "Adrian Maben". Mubi. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
- ↑ "Films directed by Adrian Maben". Letterboxd. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
- ↑ "Opération Apollo". Archive.org (in français). France: Institut national de l'audiovisuel. 6 December 2020. Archived from the original on 6 December 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2025. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Lahtinen, Anu; Vainio-Korhonen, Kirsi, eds. (2004). History & Change. Finnish Literature Society. p. 188. ISBN 978-9517465809. Search this book on
- ↑ Fischer, Lucy (2019). "Art Documentaries about Magritte / Magritte's "Home Movies" – Monsieur René Magritte (Adrian Maben, 1978)". Cinemagritte: René Magritte Within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice. Wayne State University Press. pp. 32–33. ISBN 978-0814346389. Search this book on
- ↑ Wesley, Fred (2019). "James Brown: Soul Brother No. 1". The Rock History Reader (3rd ed.). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315394824-23. ISBN 978-9517465809. Search this book on
- ↑ Delvaux, Paul; Barthelman, Z.; van Deun, J. (2007). Paul Delvaux: Odyssey of a Dream. Foundation Paul Delvaux. p. 49. ISBN 978-9085864073. Search this book on
- ↑ Rabey, David Ian; Gritzner, Karoline, eds. (2006). Theatre of Catastrophe: New Essays on Howard Barker. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 38, 82. ISBN 978-1840026726. Search this book on
- ↑ Sound & Images in Films on Art: A Conference on Music and Sound in Films about the Visual Arts. University of California. 1991. p. 67. Search this book on
External links
- "MABEN Adrian Mitchell". deces.matchid.io (in français).
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