Film

The Story of Looking

Director
Mark Cousins
Certificate
15
Running Time
87 mins

As he prepares for surgery to restore his vision, filmmaker and critic Mark Cousins explores the role that visual experience plays in our individual and collective lives in this deeply personal film

He shares the pleasure and pain of seeing the world, in all its complexity and contradiction, with eyes wide open, through a kaleidoscope of imagery across centuries of art, biology, neuroscience, poetry and drawing.

 

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By robin askew, Friday, Jun 4 2021

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