Philippe Mora

Philippe Mora is a highly talented artist and film-maker with an impressive resume to boast of. He was born in Paris in 1949 to Georges and Mirka Mora, who moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1951. There the elder Moras became very important local artistic and cultural figures.

Georges was an art dealer who in 1967 had founded the commercial art gallery Tolarno Galleries.

In 1967, the young Philippe moved to London to make his mark in both the art and filmmaking industries. He made the acquaintance of an artist from Sydney named Martin Sharp, who encouraged Philippe to move into The Pheasantry, an artists colony located in Kings Road, Chelsea. One of his flatmates during this time was none other than music legend Eric Clapton. He became quite successful as an artist, with his work displayed in showings; among his work is providing art for "The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics".

Eric Clapton was Mora's first producer on Trouble in Molopolis 1971 in London.

New Horizons Film Festival held a 7 film retrospective of Mora's work in 2010 in Wroclaw, Poland including The Return of Captain Invincible, Swastika and The Gertrude Stein Mystery.

Given German Honorary Independence Award at Oldenburg Film Festival, Germany, at his 2014 retrospective.

Mora's mother, artist Mirka Mora, received a State Funeral in Victoria, Australia in 2018 when she died at age 90.