Mark Cousins is an Northern Irish filmmaker, writer and curator living and working in Scotland. In the early 1990s he became director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. His 2004 book The Story of Film, was published in Europe, America, China, Mexico, Brazil and Taiwan. The Times said of it “by some distance the best book we have read on cinema.” Cousins adapted the book into a 930 minute film, THE STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSEY (“The place from which all future revisionism should begin” – New York Times). Michael Moore gave it the Stanley Kubrick Award at his Traverse City Film Festival. It won a Peabody Award in 2014.

Next Cousins wrote, directed and filmed his first feature documentary, THE FIRST MOVIE, about kids in Kurdish Iraq. It won the Prix Italia. His other feature films include WHAT IS THIS FILM CALLED LOVE?, HERE BE DRAGONS, A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM, which was in the Official Selection in Cannes, LIFE MAY BE, co-directed with Iranian filmmaker Mania Akbari, and 6 DESIRES, an adaptation of DH Lawrence’s book Sea and Sardinia.

He is currently making STOCKHOLM MY LOVE, a city symphony starring Neneh Cherry, and directing the archive film ATOMIC, a collaboration with the band Mogwai.

FILMOGRAPHY
Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise, documentary
2015 I Am Belfast, documentary
2015 Your Eyes Flash Solemnly with Hate, short
2014 6 Desires: DH Lawrence and Sardinia, documentary
2014 Life May Be, documentary
2014 The Place, short
2013 Here Be Dragons, documentary
2013 A Story of Children and Film, documentary
2012 What Is This Film Called Love?
2011 The Story of Film: An Odyssey, TV Mini-Series documentary – 15 episodes
2009 The First Movie, documentary
2008 First Impressions, Video documentary short
2008 The New Ten Commandments, documentary
2005 Cinema Iran, TV Movie documentary
1999-2000 Scene by Scene, TV Series – 3 episodes
1994 I Know Where I’m Going! Revisited, TV Movie documentary
1993 The Psychology of Neo-Nazism: Another Journey by Train to Auschwitz, documentary