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Mark Cousins

A globally acclaimed Scottish-Irish director, writer and wanderer, Mark Cousins was born in 1965, raised in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and has lived in Scotland since the early 1980s. His 24 feature-length films (as well as 30 short films) and 40 hours of television – including The Story of Film: An Odyssey, What is This Film Called Love?, Life May Be, A Story of Children and Film, Atomic, Stockholm My Love, I Am Belfast and The Eyes of Orson Welles – have premiered in Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Venice film festivals and have won the Prix Italia, a Peabody, the Persistence of Vision Award in San Francisco, the Maverick Award in Dublin, the Stanley Kubrick Award, and the European Film Academy Award for Innovative Storytelling as well as many other prizes. He has filmed in Iraq, Sarajevo during the siege, Iran, Mexico, across Asia and in America and Europe.

Mark Cousins is also the author of five books, including the acclaimed The Story of Film (Pavilion Books, 2004), Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary (Faber and Faber, 1996), Wide

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Mark Cousins. Creativity is like a contagion

INTERVIEW / Last year, for the first time in the history of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, a documentary won the top prize – A Sudden Glimpse of Deeper Things by Mark Cousins.

Last year, for the first time in the history of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, a documentary won the top prize – A Sudden Glimpse of Deeper Things by Mark Cousins. From his deep love of cinema and thoughts on film curation to ageing, Parajanov’s tea, and the need for wildness, our conversation explored the many layers of his artistic vision.

After Scottish painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham climbed the Grindelwald Glacier in Switzerland, her perception of the world changed forever. Until the end of her life, glacial colours and shapes permeated her work. This is precisely what captivated director Mark Cousins. In A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things, he brings to life both this defining experience and the artist’s unique way of thinking. He does so through her paintings and his signature commentary. When we spoke over Skype, I caught him in his study room i

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Mark Cousins (writer)

British architect (1947–2020)

Mark Cousins (8 October 1947 – 26 September 2020^[1]^[2]) was a British cultural critic and architectural theorist. He studied Art History at Merton College, Oxford and was a research student at the Warburg Institute. From 1993 he was the Director of General Studies and Head of the Graduate Programme in Histories and Theories at the Architectural Association.^[3] He was also Visiting Professor of Architecture at Columbia University and at Southeast University in Nanjing, China.^[4]

He co-founded the London Consortium along with Paul Hirst, Colin MacCabe, and Richard Humphreys.

Cousins was the author of Michel Foucault, co-written with Athar Hussain (London: Macmillan, 1984); The Ugly, a series of articles published at AA Files (1995, 1996); the Introduction to the Penguin Edition of The Unconscious by Sigmund Freud (London: Penguin:2005). Cousins gave the Friday Lectures at the Architectural Association for more than thirty years.^[1]

Selected articles

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