Mark Cousins
Mark Cousins is an Anglo-Irish film director and writer based in Edinburgh. A prolific documentary filmmaker, he is best known for his 15-hour documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011). In 2009, he created a project in which they mounted a portable cinema on a large truck that travels through the Scottish Highlands. The traveling independent film festival featured prominently in a documentary titled Cinema is Everywhere. In 2013, he co-directed the documentary Here Be Dragons about the history and memory of Albania. In 2015, he directed I am Belfast about the city of the same name. In 2018, he directed The Eyes of Orson Welles, a dive into the pictorial universe of the artist. In 2021, he directed The Story of Film: A New Generation, which updates his classic and highlights the most powerful film sequences of the decade in his eyes.
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Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
Subscription accessMark Cousins examines life and death in the atomic age. Using only archival film, his documentary shows an impressionistic kaleidoscope of our nuclear age set to the soundtrack of the Scottish band Mogwai: protest marches, the Cold War, Chernobyl and Fukushima, but also the sublime beauty of the atomic world, how X-rays and MRI scanners have helped improve people's lives.
Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
Subscription accessMark Cousins examines life and death in the atomic age. Using only archival film, his documentary shows an impressionistic kaleidoscope of our nuclear age set to the soundtrack of the Scottish band Mogwai: protest marches, the Cold War, Chernobyl and Fukushima, but also the sublime beauty of the atomic world, how X-rays and MRI scanners have helped improve people's lives.
