On Sunday 13 October, Conic Films are teaming up with the Garden Cinema to present a preview of A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things, followed by a Q&A with director Mark Cousins hosted by journalist Wendy Mitchell.
Narrated by Tilda Swinton, the film recently won the top award at Karlovy Vary (the first British title to do so since Kes).
A creative biography of the Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. 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 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.
Mark Cousins is a writer and director. He presented cult BBC film series Moviedrome and is most famous for his 15-hour 2011 documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey, as well as the 14-hour documentary Women Make Film. His previous film The Story of Film: A New Generation premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
