Crystal Globe Competition 2024 / A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things / United Kingdom 2024
One of the most important women in British modern art, the painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was a highly inspirational figure, whose work was deeply impacted by a pivotal event in her life. In May 1949, this leading representative of the modernist St Ives group of artists climbed to the top of the Grindelwald glacier in Switzerland, an experience which was to transform the way she saw the world. She spent the rest of her life capturing its shapes and colours, indeed its very essence. In his essayistic portrait documentarist Mark Cousins delves into complex themes of gender, climate change and creativity, while laying bare the artist’s character and vast imagination so pervasively that he creates the impression we are seeing the world through her eyes.
Natalia Kozáková
88 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Mark Cousins
/ Screenplay Mark Cousins
/ Dir. of Photography Mark Cousins
/ Music Linda Buckley
/ Sound Ali Murray
/ Editor Timo Langer
/ Producer Adam Dawtrey, Mary Bell
/ Production BOFA Productions
/ Sales Reservoir Docs
Mark Cousins (1965, Belfast, Northern Ireland). Selected filmography: The First Movie (2009, doc.), The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011, doc.), A Story of Children and Film (2013, doc.), The Eyes of Orson Welles (2018, doc.), The March on Rome (Marcia su Roma, 2022, doc.), A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things (2024).
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Mark Cousins
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