Mark Cousins is a well-known figure on the world cinema scene, and a fixture at film festivals. A British filmmaker born in 1965, he has made several feature-length films since 2011, including a number of highly acclaimed documentaries. One of his most incredible, The Story of film: An Odyssey(2011) was broadcast in 15 one-hour episodes, then presented at the Toronto Film Festival.
The eyes of Orson Welles, his quirky, ironic and personal documentary about Orson Welles (more precisely, Orson Welles‘ drawings) attracted a lot of attention at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. He then (and among other things) made a documentary road movie with Jeremy Thomas, a leading British film producer, and filmed his trip to Cannes.
We were lucky enough to meet Mark Cousins after the screening of his latest experimental project My name is Alfred Hitchcock at the Dinard British Film Festival:
A film by Mark Cousins
With: Alfred Hitchcock, Alistair McGowan, Mark Cousins
Directed by Mark Cousins, My Name is Alfred Hitchcock re-examines the vast filmography and legacy of one of the 20th century’s greatest filmmakers, Alfred Hitchcock, from a new angle: through the voice of the auteur himself.
