Mark Cousins Movies

Belfast, it's a city that is changing, changing because the people are leaving? But one came back, a 10,000 year old woman who claims that she is the...

Using only archive film and a new musical score by the band Mogwai, Mark Cousins presents an impressionistic kaleidoscope of our nuclear times...

A documentary feature film that ties four narratives - from China, India, Scotland, and Tunisia - together with countless insights from venerable...

Despite the many curious similarities between Susan Hayward and Lena Horne-both were born in Brooklyn on exactly the same day, for example-one detail...

The film marks 50 years since riots erupted across Northern Ireland, widely seen as the beginning of the thirty-year conflict known as The Troubles....

It’s not everyday you see a film without a director! The citizens of Belfast submitted hundreds of stories of everyday life. Using an...

In 1993 Sarajevo was under the siege. Against all odds a small group of enthusiasts managed to open the First War Cinema in Sarajevo. For them this...

Abbas Kiarostami is the most acclaimed Iranian film director whose films have won prizes all around the world. In this film he gives a rare and frank...

At 18 hours and 43 minutes long, 'The Complete Story of Film' collects two epic documentaries by Mark Cousins into a stunningly expansive global...

Tracing the history and influence of Iranian cinema and its filmmakers.

A meticulous essay on the presence and representation of children in the history of cinema, in which cinematographies from all over the world are...

For just forty days, filmmaker and writer Mark Cousins embarks on a peculiar journey in order to explore topics as the passion for cinema and certain...

Short video essay by critic/filmmaker Mark Cousins about the influence of Pulp Fiction. He discusses the influence of the film and his personal view...

A collaborative film by Aidan O’Rourke, Becky Manson and Mark Cousins. A musical melange of fiddles, friendship and a search for home. An...

As he prepares for surgery to restore his vision, Mark Cousins explores the role that visual experience plays in our individual and collective lives....

A moment on Rose St, Edinburgh, where Margaret Tait used to live.

Mark Cousins (The Story of Film: An Odyssey) reflects on questions concerning copyright and the extent to which a film can conform to the...

A first encounter. At the Venice Film Festival. A second encounter. Again the Venice Film Festival. A crescendo of curiosity, wish to know and...

TV doc about military training in the first Gulf War.