mark cousins
Filmmaker in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
DIRECTOR
Dear Mr Gorbachev (assoc d, with Mike Grigsby, 60 m, 1989)
Gulf War: Scottish Eye (d, 38 m, 1990)
Another Journey by Train (co-d with Mark Forrest, 59 m, 1993)
Ian Hamilton Finlay (d, 40 m, 1996)
I Remember IKWIG (d, 40 m, 1996)
Scene by Scene (d, 24 x 60 m doc interviews, 1997-2001)
Cinema Iran (w/d 59 m, 2005)
On the Road with Kiarostami (w/d, 28 mins, 2005)
New Ten Commandments: Kenny Richie (co-d with Irvine Welsh, 11 m, 2008)
NTC: 8 1/2 (co w/co d with Tilda Swinton, 23 m, 2008)
The First Movie (w/d/dp, 81 m, 2009)
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (w/d/dp, 930 m, 2011)
What is this Film Called Love? (w/d/dp, 75 m, 2012) a personal film about Mexico City and Sergei Eisenstein
Dear Georges Melies (with 102 children and Tilda Swinton, 8 1/2 mins, 2013)
Here be Dragons (w/d/dp 76 mins, 2013) About Albania
A Story of Children and Film (w/d/dp, 101 m, 2013)
Homeless and The Wind in the Trees (w/d/dp, 2 x 9.88s, 2014)
Life May Be (co-w/co-d/co-dp with Mania Akbari, 80 m, 2014) Cine-letters
The Oar and the Winnowing Fan (w/d/dp 4 x short films about in betweeness, takeover of Dazed Vision, 2014)
6 Desires: DH Lawrence and Sardinia (w/d/dp, 83 m, 2014)
Your Eyes Flash Solemnly with Hate (w/d, 10 m, 2015) About the killer of Pasolini
I am Belfast (w/d/co-dp, 86 m, 2015) A city film, shot by Christopher Doyle
Atomic (d, 72 mins, 2015) A montage film, with a new score by Mogwai
Stockholm My Love (w/d, co-dp 2016) City musical, with Neneh Cherry
Bigger than The Shining (d, 83 mins, 2016) Secret film
Eisenstein on Lawrence (w/d/dp, 9 mins, 2016)
Storm in My Heart (p, 110 mins, 2018)
The Eyes of Orson Welles (w/d/dp, 100 mins, 2018
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (w/d 15 hrs, 2019)
IN PRODUCTION
The Story of Film: A New Generation (w/d/dp 2021)
The Story of Looking (w/d/dp 2021)
BOOKS
Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary (Faber in the UK)
Scene by Scene (Laurence King)
The Story of Film (Pavilion in the UK)
Watching. Real. People. Elsewhere (Wallflower/Columbia University Press)
The Story of Looking (Canongate)