Mark Cousins (filmmaker)

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Mark Cousins
Born (1965-05-03) 3 May 1965 (age 58)
Coventry, England
NationalityNorthern Irish
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter, producer, author
Years active1988–present
Notable workThe Story of Film: An Odyssey

Mark Cousins (born 3 May 1965) is an English-born, Northern Irish director and writer. A prolific documentarian, among his works is the 15-hour 2011 documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey.

Career[edit]

Cousins interviewed famous filmmakers such as David Lynch, Martin Scorsese and Roman Polanski in the TV series Scene by Scene. He presented the BBC cult film series Moviedrome from June 1997 to July 2000. He introduced 66 films for the show, including the little-seen Nicolas Roeg film Eureka.[1]

In the 1990s and 2000s, Cousins interviewed directors, producers and actors including Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Tom Hanks, Sean Connery, Brian De Palma, Steve Martin, Lauren Bacall, Jane Russell, Paul Schrader, Bernardo Bertolucci, Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Moreau, Terence Stamp, Jack Lemmon, Janet Leigh and Rod Steiger.

In 2009, Cousins and Tilda Swinton co-founded the "8/2 Foundation".[2] Together they also created a project where they mounted a 33.5-tonne portable cinema on a large truck which was physically pulled through the Scottish Highlands. The traveling independent film festival was featured prominently in a documentary called Cinema is Everywhere. The festival was repeated in 2011.[3][4]

Robert Osborne, Cousins and TCM senior vice president Charles Tabesh in 2014, with the Peabody Award that TCM received for its presentation of The Story of Film: An Odyssey

His 2011 film The Story of Film: An Odyssey[5][6] was broadcast on Channel 4 as 15 one-hour television episodes[7] on More4,[5] and later, featured at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.[8] In September 2013, it began to be shown on Turner Classic Movies (TCM).[9] Drawing on its exhaustive film library, TCM complemented each episode with relevant short films and feature films ranging from the familiar to the rarely seen. TCM received a 2013 Peabody Award "for its inclusive, uniquely annotated survey of world cinema history".[10][11]

Following The Story of Film,was a shorter work: What Is This Film Called Love? a self-photographed diary of his three-day walk around Mexico City, accompanied by his imagined conversation with a photo of Sergei Eisenstein and described as "fatuous" by film bible Variety.[12] Another low-budget, quickly produced documentary, Here Be Dragons, covers a short film-watching trip he made to Albania and was also poorly received as indulgent and "random".[13]

6 Desires: DH Lawrence and Sardinia was based around an imagined letter from Cousins to the author D. H. Lawrence, who wrote about a 1921 visit to Sardinia.[14] Life May Be was a collaboration with Iranian director and actor Mania Akbari, again making use of Cousins' familiar structural devices of letters, travel imagery, and voiceover commentary, judged "self-advertisement".[15]

A Story of Children and Film was critically better-received. Using footage he shot of his niece and nephew at play as a springboard it muses on the representation of children in cinema.[16][17][18][19][20]

Cousins subsequently wrote and directed I Am Belfast, in which the city is personified by a 10,000-year-old woman. Portions of the film in progress, with a score by Belfast composer David Holmes were screened at the 2014 Belfast Film Festival.[21] He is also working on a three-hour addendum to The Story of Film, on the subject of documentaries, entitled Dear John Grierson.[22]

Cousins took an axe to his own film Bigger Than The Shining after screening to a live audience at the 2017 International Rotterdam Film Festival (IFFR), with the intention of never screeining it again since this was the only copy of the film.[23]

Cousins is the Co-Artistic Director of Cinema China, The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams and A Pilgrimage with Tilda Swinton. Together with Antonia Bird, Robert Carlyle and Irvine Welsh, Cousins is a director of the production company 4Way Pictures.[24] Between 2001 and 2011, he wrote for Prospect, and now writes for Sight & Sound and Filmkrant.

Cousins was appointed Honorary Professor of the University of Glasgow in 2013,[25] as well as Honorary Doctor of Letters at both the University of Edinburgh in 2007[26] and University of Stirling in 2014.[27] He is a Patron of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and previously acted as both a programmer and director (1996–1997) of the festival.[28]

He also appeared on Mark Kermode's YouTube channel "Kermode Uncut".[29]

Cousins chairs the Belfast Film Festival, and is a board member of Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival[30] and was a Member of the Audentia Award jury at the 42nd Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF) in 2019,[31] as well as member of the "Official Competition" jury at the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2018.[32]

In 2019, Cousins was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[33] In 2021, he was on the jury for that year's BFI London Film Festival.[34]

His film The Story of Film: A New Generation was first screened at the Cannes Film Festival 2021.[35]

Personal life[edit]

Born in Coventry, England,[36] Cousins was raised in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland (where he attended St Louis Grammar School), and graduated in film, television and art at the University of Stirling.[21][37][38] Since 1984, he has been in a long-term personal relationship with Gill Moreton, a psychologist, whom he met at Stirling; they live in Edinburgh.[39][40]

In December 2023 he was one of 50 filmmakers who signed an open letter to Libération demanding a ceasefire and an end to the killing of civilians amid the 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, and for a humanitarian corridor into Gaza to be established for humanitarian aid, and the release of hostages.[41][42][43]

Filmography[edit]

Year Title Role Format Runtime Notes
1989 Dear Mr Gorbachev Associate Director TV 60m Directed with Michael Grigsby, ITV
1990 Gulf War: Scottish Eye Director TV 38 mins
1993 Another Journey by Train Co-Director and producer TV 59 mins Co-Directed by Mark Forrest
1994 I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited Director TV 40 mins
1996 Ian Hamilton Finlay: In a Wee Way Director TV 38 mins Co-Directed by Mark Forrest
1996 I Remember IKWIG Director TV 40m
1997–2001 Scene by Scene Director and presenter TV 24 Episodes x 60 mins Interviews include Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, David Lynch, Jane Russell, Paul Schrader, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Roman Polanski. Shown on BBC.
1997–2000 Moviedrome Presenter TV 66 Episodes x 5 mins Shown on BBC.
2005 Cinema Iran Director and narrator TV 59 mins Shown on Channel 4. Presented by Omid Djalili
2005 On the Road with Kiarostami Writer and director TV 28 mins
2005 Faith Executive Producer TV movie 102 mins Starring Maxine Peake, Clive Russell and Jason Flemyng.
2008 First Impressions Writer and director Short Film 15 mins Shot in Northern Iraq.
2008 The New Ten Commandments: Kenny Richie Co-Director Film Anthology Film Co-Directed with Irvine Welsh. Shown on BBC Two
2008 The New Ten Commandments: 8 1/2 Co-Director Film Anthology Film Co-Directed with Tilda Swinton. Shown on BBC Two
2008 The New Ten Commandments Contributing Director Film 101 mins Co-Directed of two of the ten Chapters. Shown on BBC Two
2009 The First Movie Writer and director Film 81 mins BAFTA Scotland Award Nominee for ‘Best Single Documentary’, Royal Television Society Award Nominee for ‘Best Arts Documentary’.
2011 The Story of Film: An Odyssey Writer, director and narrator Film 930 mins Shown on More4 and Turner Classic Movies.
2011 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero Contributing Director Anthology Film 60 mins
2011 Cinema Is Everywhere Self Film 86 mins Centred on a project between Cousins and Tilda Swinton.
2012 What is this Film Called Love? Writer, director and narrator Film 75 mins A personal film about Mexico City and Sergei Eisenstein
2013 Dear Georges Melies Writer and co-Director Short Film 8 ½ mins Co-Directed with 102 children and Tilda Swinton.
2013 Apollo: Prvo ratno kino Co-Writer Short Film 14 mins
2013 Here be Dragons Writer and director Film 76 mins Centred on Albania
2013 A Story of Children and Film Writer, director and narrator Film 101 mins
2014 Homeless Writer and director Short Film 10 mins
2014 The Wind in the Trees Writer and director Short Film 10 mins
2014 The Place Writer and director Short Film 38 mins
2014 The Big Shave Backwards Writer and director Short Film 1 min
2014 Life May Be Co-Writer and co-Director Film 80 mins Cine-letters between Mark Cousins and Mania Akbari
2014 The Oar and the Winnowing Fan Writer and director Short Film 4 Episodes x Various mins
2014 But Then Again, Too Few to Mention Writer and director Short Film 7 mins
2014 The Film That Buys the Cinema Contributing Writer and director Film 77 mins Alongside Nicolas Roeg, Tony Grisoni, Jennifer Abbott and Peter Strickland.
2014 6 Desires: D. H. Lawrence and Sardinia Writer, director and narrator Film 83 mins
2014 The Place Writer and director Short Film 38 mins
2014 Dear John Grierson Writer and director Short Film 30 mins
2015 Your Eyes Flash Solemnly with Hate Writer and director Short Film 10 mins About the killer of Pier Paolo Pasolini
2015 I Am Belfast Writer, director and narrator Film 86 mins Cinematography by Christopher Doyle
2015 Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise Writer and director[44] Film 72 mins Score by Mogwai. Produced by BBC and the British Film Institute.
2016 Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood Executive Producer and Self Film 90 mins About Cousin's late friend Antonia Bird
2016 Stockholm, My Love Co-Writer and director Film 88 mins Cinematography by Christopher Doyle, starring Neneh Cherry and co-written by Anita Oxburgh
2016 Bigger than The Shining Director Film 83 mins Cousins' famously axed the film's DCP (Digital Cinema Package) following a screening in front of a live audience at the 2017 International Rotterdam Film Festival (IFFR). This was done with the intention being for it to never be shown again, this was the only copy of the film.[23]
2016 Eisenstein on Lawrence Writer and director Short Film 9 mins Sergei Eisenstein talks about D. H. Lawrence
2017 Storm in My Heart Director Film 100 mins Experimental film about Susan Hayward and Lena Horne.
2017 The Eyes of Orson Welles Writer, director and narrator Film 110 mins Consulted on and featuring Beatrice Welles, Executive Produced by Michael Moore.
2019 Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema Writer, director and narrator[45] Film 840 mins Starring Thandiwe Newton, Jane Fonda, Tilda Swinton, Sharmila Tagore, Adjoa Andoh and Debra Winger.
2020 Alexander's Film Writer and director Short Film 8 mins
2020 40 Days to Learn Film Writer, director and narrator Film 136 mins
2020 This Violation Director Short Film 8 mins
2020 Dear Paul Schrader Writer and director Short Film 11 mins
2021 The Storms of Jeremy Thomas Writer and director Film 90 mins A road movie with the film producer Jeremy Thomas.
2021 The Story of Looking Writer, director and narrator Film 84 mins Based loosely on the book by Cousins of the same name.
2021 The Story of Film: A New Generation Writer, director and narrator[46] Film 160 mins A sequel to The Story of Film: An Odyssey.
2021 The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel Self / Film Subject Film 83 mins A documentary about Mark Cousins.
2022 March on Rome Writer, director and narrator Film 94 mins A documentary about the ascent of fascism in Italy

Bibliography[edit]

Year Title Publisher Notes
1996 Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary Faber and Faber Co-Edited by Kevin Macdonald
2002 Scene by Scene Laurence King Publishing Based upon the BBC TV Series of the same name.
2004 The Story of Film: Book Pavilion Books re-issued in 2011 and 2021
2008 Widescreen: Watching Real People Elsewhere  Columbia University Press
2017 The Story of Looking  Canongate Books re-issued in 2021

Awards and nominations[edit]

Year Nominated Work Awards[47] Category Result
2009 The First Movie Berlin International Film Festival Manfred Salzgeber Award[47] Won
2010 Prix Italia Best Arts or Performing Arts Documentary[47] Won
Royal Television Society Best Arts Documentary[47] Nominated
Real to Reel Film and Video Festival Children's Jury Prize[47] Won
The New Ten Commandments Scottish Refugee Film Festival Best Broadcast Award Won
DokumentART Festival Jury Award Won
2011 The First Movie BAFTA Scotland Award Best Single Documentary[47] Nominated
2012 The Story of Film: An Odyssey Palm Springs International Film Festival Best Documentary Feature[47] Nominated
Traverse City Film Festival Stanley Kubrick Award[47] Won
What is this Film Called Love? Torino Film Festival Best International Documentary Film[47] Nominated
Himself Screen International Annual Awards Screen International Award[48] Nominated
Himself London Awards for Art and Performance Award for Film[48] Nominated
2013 The Story of Film: An Odyssey Peabody Awards Best Documentary[47] Won
Here be Dragons BFI London Film Festival Grierson Award[47] Nominated
Adelaide Film Festival Best Documentary[47] Nominated
2014 Life May Be New Horizons Film Festival Films on Art International Competition[47] Nominated
Torino Film Festival Best International Documentary Film[47] Nominated
Edinburgh International Film Festival Best Documentary Feature Film[47] Nominated
2015 Fribourg International Film Festival Don Quixote Award[47] Won
Grand Prix[47] Nominated
I Am Belfast Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Best Documentary[47] Nominated
Adelaide Film Festival Best Documentary[47] Nominated
2016 Traverse City Film Festival Stanley Kubrick Award[47] Won
2018 Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema Venice Film Festival Venezia Classici Award[47] Nominated
The Eyes of Orson Welles Adelaide Film Festival International Documentary Award[47] Nominated
Biografilm Festival Best Film Unipol Award[47] Nominated
Cannes Film Festival Special Mention[47] Won
L'Œil d'or[47] Nominated
Edinburgh International Film Festival Best Documentary Feature Film[47] Nominated
Odesa International Film Festival Best European Documentary[47] Nominated
2019 Barcelona-Sant Jordi International Film Festival Critics Choice Award[47] Won
Himself British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Outstanding Achievement Award[49] Won
2020 Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema European Film Awards Innovative Storytelling[47] Won
Dublin International Film Festival Best Documentary – Special Mention[47] Won
2021 The Story of Looking Seville European Film Festival New Waves Award[47] Won
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas Cannes Film Festival L'Œil d'or[47] Nominated
The Story of Film: A New Generation Nominated
Stockholm Film Festival Bronze Horse[47] Nominated

Festivals accolations[edit]

Film Festival Film Notes
Edinburgh International Film Festival The New Ten Commandments Official Selection[50]
Sheffield DocFest Official Selection[51]
International Film Festival Rotterdam Official Selection[51]
DokumentART Festival Official Selection[51]
Scottish Refugee Film Festival Official Selection[51]
South by Southwest Film Festival The First Movie Official Selection[52]
Berlin International Film Festival Official Selection[52]
Telluride Film Festival Official Selection[52]
Palm Springs International Film Festival Official Selection[53]
Real to Reel Film and Video Festival Official Selection[54]
Prix Italia Official Selection[54]
European Feature Documentary Film Festival – Belgrade Official Selection[53]
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Official Selection[53]
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Official Selection[53]
Berlin International Film Festival The Story of Film: An Odyssey Official Selection[55]
Toronto International Film Festival Official Selection[55]
Telluride Film Festival Official Selection[55]
Mill Valley Film Festival Official Selection[55]
Istanbul Film Festival Official Selection[55]
Palm Springs International Film Festival Official Selection[54]
Traverse City Film Festival Official Selection[54]
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero Official Selection[56]
Edinburgh International Film Festival What is this Film Called Love? Official Selection[57]
Telluride Film Festival Official Selection[57]
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Official Selection[58]
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival Official Selection[58]
Copenhagen International Documentary Festival Official Selection[58]
Morelia International Film Festival Official Selection[58]
New Horizons Film Festival Official Selection[58]
Edinburgh International Film Festival A Story of Children and Film Official Selection[59]
Toronto International Film Festival Official Selection[59]
Vancouver International Film Festival Official Selection[59]
Cannes Film Festival Official Selection[60]
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Official Selection[60]
Two Riversides Film and Art Festival Official Selection[60]
Reykjavik International Film Festival Official Selection[60]
Hawaii International Film Festival Official Selection[60]
Stockholm International Film Festival Official Selection[60]
Dubai International Film Festival Official Selection[60]
Hong Kong International Film Festival Official Selection[60]
BUFF International Film Festival Official Selection[60]
San Francisco International Film Festival Official Selection[60]
Sydney Film Festival Official Selection[60]
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Official Selection[60]
Brighton Festival Official Selection[60]
BFI London Film Festival Here be Dragons Official Selection[61]
Telluride Film Festival Official Selection[61]
Adelaide Film Festival Official Selection[61]
Cinéma du Réel Official Selection[61]
Edinburgh International Film Festival Life May Be Official Selection[62]
Torino Film Festival Official Selection[62]
Fribourg International Film Festival Official Selection[62]
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Official Selection[63]
Beirut International Film Festival Official Selection[63]
São Paulo International Film Festival Official Selection[63]
Brisbane International Film Festival Official Selection[63]
Göteborg Film Festival Official Selection[63]
Tempo Documentary Festival Official Selection[63]
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema Official Selection[63]
New Horizons Film Festival Official Selection[63]
BFI London Film Festival The Film That Buys the Cinema Official Selection[64]
London Short Film Festival Official Selection[65]
Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International Official Selection[65]
Kyiv International Short Film Festival Official Selection[65]
Kino Climates Weekend Official Selection[65]
Leeds International Film Festival Official Selection[65]
BFI London Film Festival 6 Desires: D. H. Lawrence and Sardinia Official Selection[66]
Sundance Film Festival Official Selection[66]
Sundance Film Festival Official Selection[66]
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema Official Selection[66]
Edinburgh International Film Festival Official Selection[66]
Belfast Film Festival I Am Belfast Official Selection[67]
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Official Selection[67]
BFI London Film Festival Official Selection[67]
Adelaide Film Festival Official Selection[67]
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Official Selection[67]
South by Southwest Film Festival Official Selection[67]
Seattle International Film Festival Official Selection[67]
Haifa Film Festival Official Selection[67]
Biografilm Festival Official Selection[67]
Glasgow Film Festival Official Selection[67]
Traverse City Film Festival Official Selection[67]
Göteborg Film Festival Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise Official Selection[68]
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Official Selection[68]
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival Official Selection[68]
Stockholm International Film Festival Stockholm, My Love Official Selection[69]
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Official Selection[69]
Belfast Film Festival Official Selection[70]
São Paulo International Film Festival Official Selection[70]
International Film Festival Rotterdam Bigger Than The Shining Official Selection[70]
Edinburgh International Film Festival Official Selection[70]
Cannes Film Festival The Eyes of Orson Welles Official Selection[71]
Biografilm Festival Official Selection[71]
Edinburgh International Film Festival Official Selection[71]
Foyle Film Festival Official Selection[72]
Galway Film Fleadh Official Selection[71]
Odesa International Film Festival Official Selection[71]
Traverse City Film Festival Official Selection[71]
Bergen International Film Festival Official Selection[71]
Adelaide Film Festival Official Selection[71]
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival Official Selection[71]
Barcelona-Sant Jordi International Film Festival Official Selection[71]
Göteborg Film Festival Official Selection[71]
Chongqing Youth Film Festival Official Selection[71]
Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival Official Selection[73]
Mumbai Film Festival Official Selection[73]
Golden Horse Film Festival Official Selection[73]
Hong Kong International Film Festival Official Selection[73]
Athens International Film Festival Official Selection[73]
Hawaii International Film Festival Official Selection[73]
Sheffield DocFest Official Selection[73]
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Official Selection[73]
Vancouver International Film Festival Official Selection[73]
Melbourne International Film Festival Official Selection[73]
Telluride Film Festival Official Selection[73]
Istanbul Film Festival Official Selection[73]
Xining FIRST International Film Festival Official Selection[73]
Edinburgh International Film Festival Storm in My Heart Official Selection[74]
International Film Festival Rotterdam Official Selection[74]
Seattle International Film Festival Official Selection[74]
Göteborg Film Festival Official Selection[74]
Dublin International Film Festival Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema Official Selection[75]
European Film Awards Official Selection[75]
Venice Film Festival Official Selection[75]
Toronto International Film Festival Official Selection[76]
Telluride Film Festival Official Selection[76]
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Documentary Fortnightl Official Selection[76]
New Femininity Film Festival Official Selection[76]
Ghent Film Festival Official Selection[77]
Seville European Film Festival Official Selection[77]
Melbourne International Film Festival Official Selection[77]
Melbourne International Documentary Festival Official Selection[77]
Belfast Film Festival Official Selection[77]
BFI London Film Festival Official Selection[77]
It's All True – International Documentary Film Festival 40 Days to Learn Film Official Selection[78]
DocuDays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Alexander's Film Official Selection[78]
Cannes Classics Selection (Cannes Film Festival) The Storms of Jeremy Thomas Official Selection[79]
Vienna International Film Festival Official Selection[79]
Belfast Film Festival Official Selection[79]
BFI London Film Festival Official Selection[79]
Sheffield DocFest The Story of Looking Official Selection[80]
Telluride Film Festival Official Selection[81]
Seville European Film Festival Official Selection[81]
Reykjavik International Film Festival Official Selection[81]
Doclisboa International Film Festival Official Selection[81]
Cannes Film Festival The Story of Film: A New Generation Official Selection[82]
BFI London Film Festival Official Selection[82]
Lumière Film Festival Official Selection[82]
Chicago International Film Festival Official Selection[82]
Golden Horse Film Festival Official Selection[82]
Stockholm International Film Festival Official Selection[82]
Palm Springs International Film Festival Official Selection[82]
Seville European Film Festival Official Selection[83]
Bergen International Film Festival Official Selection[83]
Sydney Film Festival Official Selection[83]
Foyle Film Festival Official Selection[84]

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