John O'Rourke

John O'Rourke is an Irish documentary director, whose films for the BBC profile subjects as varied as Lemn Sissay (My Name is Why, 2021 - Grierson Nominated), Peter Sellers (A State of Comic Ecstasy, 2020), Olafur Eliasson (Miracles of Rare Device, 2019) and Tracey Emin (Where Do You Draw The Line?, 2018). Telling the untold stories of queer lives has long been important to him, as explored in films profiling Raqib Shaw (2018) and Ian McKellen (2022). His latest films include the final episode of BBC Two's series on Pablo Picasso, The Beauty and the Beast, a short documentary about Antony Gormley for the White Cube gallery, and Melvyn Bragg's Art Matters for Sky Arts; he is currently at work on a collaborative film project with the artist Marguerite Humeau.