A SUDDEN GLIMPSE TO DEEPER THINGS

UK | 2024 | COLOR | DCP | 88’ | ENGLISH

The starting point for Cousins' new film is the paintings of Wilhelmina Barnes-Graham. Through his idiosyncratic style, the director narrates the life and work of the important, though relatively unknown, British artist, reading (enter Tilda Swinton) pages from her personal diary and drawing on testimonials from the women who stood close to her. Amidst all this, there is a central event, an incident on a glacier in Switzerland that reveals the heart of the documentary. Cousins centers on the moment that changes everything, the one that gives birth to art or unlocks our ability to understand it. To the sudden awareness of beauty around us waiting to be discovered. Crystal Globe for Best Film at Karlovy Vary.

DIRECTOR: Mark Cousins
SCREENWRITER: Mark Cousins
DoP: Mark Cousins
MUSIC: Linda Buckley
EDITOR: Timo Langer

MARK COUSINS
Northern-Irish director and screenwriter. He started out making films about neo-nazism, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Iranian cinema. In 2012 he was a nominee at the London Awards of Art Performance and for the Screen International Award.
 
FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTED)
2024 A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
2018 The Eyes of Orson Welles
2015 I Am Belfast
2014 Life May Be
2009 The First Movie