Mark Cousins
Born: 1965-05-03 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Known For: Directing
Biography
Mark Cousins is an Irish documentary filmmaker, film critic and programmer. A prolific producer and director, he is best known for his 15-hour documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey" (2011). Cousins was appointed Honorary Professor of the University of Glasgow in 2013, as well as Honorary Doctor of Letters at both the University of Edinburgh in 2007 and University of Stirling in 2014. He is now a Patron of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Cousins previously acted as both a programmer and director (1996-1997) of the festival. He is a Board Member of Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival and a Member of the Audentia Award jury at the 42nd Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF) in 2019, as well as Member of the Official Competition jury at the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2018. In 2021, Cousins joined the jury of the BFI London Film Festival.
Filmography
2026
- The Story of Documentary Film: 1970s ... (Director)
2024
- A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things as Self
- The Hearth ... (Director)
2023
- Cannes Uncut as Self
- My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock as Self (voice)
- The Complete Story of Film as Narrator
- Cinema Has Been My True Love: The Work and Times of Lynda Myles ... (Director)
2022
- The March on Rome as Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Ballad of a Great Disordered Heart ... (Creator)
2021
- The Storms of Jeremy Thomas as Self
- The Story of Film: A New Generation as Narrator
- Who Is Bill Rebane? as Self
- The Story of Looking as Self
- The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel as Self
- Dear Paul Schrader, Thank You for Light Sleeper ... (Director)
2020
- Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema ... (Director)
- 40 Days to Learn Film as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Alexander's Film ... (Director)
2019
- 50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film as Himself
- You With Your Fresh Thoughts ... (Director)
2018
- The Eyes of Orson Welles as Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
- Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk as Self
- The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
- Storm in My Heart ... (Director)
2016
- Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood as Self
- Stockholm, My Love ... (Director)
- I Am Belfast ... (Director)
- Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died as Self - Interviewee
- Bigger Than The Shining ... (Director)
- Eisenstein on Lawrence ... (Writer)
2015
- Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise ... (Director)
- Your Eyes Flash Solemnly with Hate ... (Director)
2014
- Life May Be as Self
- The Film That Buys the Cinema
- But Then Again, Too Few to Mention ... (Director)
- 6 Desires ... (Cinematography)
- The Place ... (Writer)
2013
- A Story of Children and Film as Himself - Narrator (voice)
- Apollo: First War Cinema ... (Writer)
- Here Be Dragons as Self
2012
- What Is This Film Called Love? ... (Writer)
2011
- The Story of Film: An Odyssey as Presenter / Narrator
- 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero ... (Director)
- Cinema Is Everywhere as Self
2009
- The First Movie as Self – Documentarist
2008
- The New Ten Commandments as Self
- First Impressions ... (Writer)
2005
- Faith ... (Executive Producer)
- Cinema Iran as Narrator
- On the Road with Kiarostami ... (Director)
2004
- The Atomists ... (Executive Producer)
1997
- Scene by Scene as Self - Presenter
- Pulp Fact ... (Director)
1996
- Ian Hamilton Finlay: In a Wee Way ... (Director)
- I Remember IKWIG ... (Director)
1994
- I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited as Self - Interviewer
1993
- Another Journey By Train ... (Producer)
1990
- Viewpoint '90 ... (Assistant Director)
- Dear Mr Gorbachev ... (Assistant Director)
- Gulf War: Scottish Eye ... (Director)