A unique figure of contemporary cinema, Cousins has now shifted techniques applied in his last feature-length work I Am Belfast (2015) in the direction of feature film. This multilayered variation on the metropolitan symphony is at once a music film, a love letter to the city, an intimate study of guilt, and an urbanistic essay. A Swedish architect never makes it to her class; instead she strolls through the city, while her reflections on the topic of her lecture mingle with memories of the most traumatic experience of her life. For her, the city is a place where the individual confronts order. At first Stockholm appears as a constricting form, yet it then manifests itself as a space where people seek happiness and revel in their little joys. Singer Neneh Cherry performs her acting debut here, and Stockholm is captured through the lens of Christopher Doyle (I Am Belfast, The Limits of Control, Hero, Ondine, most recently Endless Poetry). Apart from songs by Neneh Cherry, the soundtrack also features music by Benny Andersson (ABBA) and by 19th century Swedish composer Franz Berwald.