Jan 28, 2020
Alan Kozlowski is known for his artistic vision, deep understanding and love of music and cinemotography. Alan has been at the forefront of innovation in film making for which he has received extensive recognition. He has produced and directed many music documentaries featuring artists Ravi Shankar, Jackson Browne, Kenny Loggins, and Lionel Richie.
His passion for music began while studying guitar in Spain with legendary gypsy flamenco guitar virtuoso Diego del Gastor. Alan was Director Of Photography in the visually stunning film “For Us The Living: The Medgar Evers Story” and the Telluride Mountain Film Festival Best of Film award winning film, “Travellers and Magicians”.
Alan directed, shot and edited the HBO special Lionel Richie’s “Dancing On The Ceiling” and was Director of Photography, co-produced and edited the ACE Award for “Best Music Special of the Year” and Disney documentary “Jackson Browne: Going Home”. Alan also was Director of Photography, co-produced and edited for Kenny Loggins documentary “Live from the Redwoods” for PBS.
He began studying music with Pandit Ravi Shankar and performed with Ravi worldwide at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, and London’s Royal Opera House. He documented the major milestones of Ravi’s life and managed his visual archives including commemorating Ravi’s 75th birthday, where Alan co-produced with George Harrison “In Celebration,” a four-CD collectors edition of Ravi Shankar’s works.
Alan also directed “Ravi Shankar: The Concert For World Peace” performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall, released world-wide by A&E. For Ravi’s 80th birthday, Alan produced and edited “Sangeet Ratna”, a documentary of the life and work of Pandit Ravi Shankar featuring interviews with Phillip Glass, Zakir Hussain, George Harrison.
In 1981 Alan developed a new technology where he filmed and directed a 360-degree, 70mm film for Envirovision Theaters. He innovated, filmed and edited a simultaneous 10-screen feature presentation of Chinese culture for “Hawpaw Village” in Singapore. Alan co-founded Pacific Ocean Post, a leading film and television post-production studio in Santa Monica, California employing more than 300 special effects, animation, sound, and editorial professionals, and breaking new ground in the integration of digital technology and visual expression. Pacific Ocean Post helped bring home the Visual Effects Oscars for Independence Day (1997), Titanic (1998) and What Dreams May Come (1999). POP was acquired by Liberty Media in 1999 facilitating Alan’s return to his artistic pursuits.
In 2001 Alan directed, filmed and edited the breathtaking “Return to Dzongsar” which documented Khyentse Norbu’s/Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche return to his native land and monastery in Eastern Tibet. Alan’s love for Tibet, Nepal and India allowed him to travel, film and photograph the people, lands and cultures of these immensely beautiful lands creating a stunning visual archive.
He published a book “On The Path-Tibet” featuring photography from his many journeys. Alan also created On The Path LLC, a performing arts center, gallery, and multimedia production facility in Santa Monica. He recently worked with Jackson Browne on a documentary focusing on master percussionist and composer Luis Conte’s return to his native land of Cuba. Alan also worked with Jeff Bridges and T-Bone Burnett to capture ancillary material for Jeff’s 2009 movie “Crazy Heart” starring Jeff Bridges, Colin Farrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robert Duvall with music by T-Bone Burnett. Through his continual travel, deep exploration, extensive relationships, vivid imagination and unending curiosity Alan Kozlowski remains to this day…On The Path of discovery.