Synopsis
Through little-seen archive and his characteristically cinematic analysis, Mark Cousins narrates the ascent of fascism in Italy and its fall-out across 1930s Europe. Both essay film and historical document, Cousins contextualises history through the now, holding a mirror to a political landscape of a creeping far right and manipulated media.
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Filmmaker
Mark Cousins
He is an Irish-Scottish director and writer. His films –including The Story of Film: An Odyssey, What is This Film Called Love?, Life May Be, A Story of Children and Film, Atomic, Stockholm My Love, I am Belfast and The Eyes of Orson Welles – have premiered in Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Venice film festivals and have won the Prix Italia, a Peabody, the Stanley Kubrick Award and the European Film Award for Innovative Storytelling. He has filmed in Iraq, Sarajevo during the siege, Iran, Mexico, across Asia and in America in Europe.
Filmography: Marcia su Roma (2022, D'A 2023), My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2022), The Storms of Jeremy Thomas (2021), The Story of Film: A New Generation (2021), The Story of Looking (2021), 40 Days to Learn Film (2019), Storm in My Heart (2018), The Eyes Orson Welles (2016), Stockholm, My Love (2016), Bigger than the Shining (2016), Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise (2015), I Am Belfast (2015), 6 Desires: DH Lawrence and Sardinia (2014), The Film That Buys the Cinema (2014), A Story of Children and Film (2013), Life May Be (2013), Here Be Dragons (2013), What Is This Film Called Love? (2012), 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011), The First Movie (2009)
Awards
Audience Award
