Directing

Mark Cousins

03.05.1965 Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK 62 credits

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.

Career

1990 2024

30 Acting 47 Directing 56 Movies 6 Series

1990

2000

2010

2020

Filmography

A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things

Acting: Self, Director of Photography, Director, Screenplay

Cinema Has Been My True Love: The Work and Times of Lynda Myles

The Complete Story of Film

Acting: Narrator, Director

My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock

Acting: Self (voice), Director, Writer

The March on Rome

Acting: Self - Narrator (voice), Director of Photography, Director, Screenstory, Writer

The Ballad of a Great Disordered Heart

The Story of Film: A New Generation

Acting: Narrator, Director, Writer

The Storms of Jeremy Thomas

Acting: Self, Director of Photography, Director, Writer

The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel

The Story of Looking

Acting: Self, Director, Book, Screenplay

Who Is Bill Rebane?

Dear Paul Schrader, Thank You for Light Sleeper

Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema

Series — 2020

Creator, Director, Writer

40 Days to Learn Film

Acting: Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Editor, Writer

Alexander's Film

You With Your Fresh Thoughts

50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film

Acting: Himself

The Eyes of Orson Welles

Acting: Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice), Director of Photography, Director, Writer

Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk

The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema

Storm in My Heart

Stockholm, My Love

Cinematography, Director, Screenplay, Writer

Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood

Acting: Self, Executive Producer

Director, Writer

Eisenstein on Lawrence

Director, Writer

Bigger Than The Shining

Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died

Acting: Self - Interviewee

Your Eyes Flash Solemnly with Hate

Director, Writer

Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise

Cinematography, Director, Writer

The Film That Buys the Cinema

Acting, Director

Director, Writer

Acting: Self, Director, Writer

But Then Again, Too Few to Mention

Apollo: First War Cinema

Here Be Dragons

Acting: Self, Director, Writer

A Story of Children and Film

Acting: Himself - Narrator (voice), Director, Writer

What Is This Film Called Love?

Director, Writer

60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

Cinema Is Everywhere

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

Series — 2011

Acting: Presenter / Narrator, Creator, Director

The First Movie

Acting: Self – Documentarist, Director of Photography, Director, Writer

First Impressions

Director, Writer

The New Ten Commandments

Acting: Self, Director

Acting: Narrator, Director

On the Road with Kiarostami

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Series — 1997

Acting: Self - Presenter, Creator, Director, Writer

I Remember IKWIG

Ian Hamilton Finlay: In a Wee Way

I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited

Acting: Self - Interviewer, Director

Another Journey By Train

Director, Producer

Gulf War: Scottish Eye

Dear Mr Gorbachev

Assistant Director

Series — 1990

Assistant Director

Series — 1988

Acting, Creator, Writer

Joie de Vivre. Notes, thoughts, words, reflections, faces, and visions concerning Bernardo Bertolucci and the cinephilia of the 20th century that no longer exists

The Story of Documentary Film

Creator, Director