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.
Full Filmography
Directing
Dear Mr Gorbachev
(1990)
Assistant Director
Gulf War: Scottish Eye
(1990)
Director
Another Journey By Train
(1993)
Director
I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
(1994)
Director
Ian Hamilton Finlay: In a Wee Way
(1996)
Director
I Remember IKWIG
(1996)
Director
Pulp Fact
(1997)
Director
Cinema Iran
(2005)
Director
On the Road with Kiarostami
(2005)
Director
The New Ten Commandments
(2008)
Director
First Impressions
(2008)
Director
The First Movie
(2009)
Director
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
(2011)
Director
What Is This Film Called Love?
(2012)
Director
A Story of Children and Film
(2013)
Director
Here Be Dragons
(2013)
Director
Life May Be
(2014)
Director
The Film That Buys the Cinema
(2014)
Director
6 Desires
(2014)
Director
But Then Again, Too Few to Mention
(2014)
Director
The Place
(2014)
Director
Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
(2015)
Director
Your Eyes Flash Solemnly with Hate
(2015)
Director
I Am Belfast
(2016)
Director
Eisenstein on Lawrence
(2016)
Director
Bigger Than The Shining
(2016)
Director
Stockholm, My Love
(2016)
Director
Storm in My Heart
(2018)
Director
The Eyes of Orson Welles
(2018)
Director
You With Your Fresh Thoughts
(2019)
Director
Alexander's Film
(2020)
Director
40 Days to Learn Film
(2020)
Director
Dear Paul Schrader, Thank You for Light Sleeper
(2021)
Director
The Story of Looking
(2021)
Director
The Story of Film: A New Generation
(2021)
Director
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
(2021)
Director
The March on Rome
(2022)
Director
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
(2023)
Director
Cinema Has Been My True Love: The Work and Times of Lynda Myles
(2023)
Director
The Complete Story of Film
(2023)
Director
Acting
I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited
(1994)
Self - Interviewer
Cinema Iran
(2005)
Narrator
The First Movie
(2009)
Self – Documentarist
Cinema Is Everywhere
(2011)
Self
A Story of Children and Film
(2013)
Himself - Narrator (voice)
The Film That Buys the Cinema
(2014)
Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
(2016)
Self
Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died
(2016)
Self - Interviewee
The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
(2018)
The Eyes of Orson Welles
(2018)
Self - Filmmaker / Narrator (voice)
Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
(2018)
Self
50 Years of the Troubles: A Journey Through Film
(2019)
Himself
40 Days to Learn Film
(2020)
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Story of Looking
(2021)
Self
Who Is Bill Rebane?
(2021)
Self
The Flowers the Fish and the Cockerel
(2021)
Himself
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
(2021)
Self
The Story of Film: A New Generation
(2021)
Narrator
The March on Rome
(2022)
Self - Narrator (voice)
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
(2023)
Self (voice)
The Complete Story of Film
(2023)
Narrator
Production
Another Journey By Train
(1993)
Producer
Faith
(2005)
Executive Producer
Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
(2016)
Executive Producer
Writing
First Impressions
(2008)
Writer
The First Movie
(2009)
Writer
What Is This Film Called Love?
(2012)
Writer
A Story of Children and Film
(2013)
Writer
Apollo: First War Cinema
(2013)
Writer
6 Desires
(2014)
Writer
The Place
(2014)
Writer
Your Eyes Flash Solemnly with Hate
(2015)
Writer
I Am Belfast
(2016)
Writer
Stockholm, My Love
(2016)
Screenplay and Writer
Eisenstein on Lawrence
(2016)
Writer
The Eyes of Orson Welles
(2018)
Writer
40 Days to Learn Film
(2020)
Writer
The Story of Looking
(2021)
Book and Screenplay
The Story of Film: A New Generation
(2021)
Writer
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
(2021)
Writer
The March on Rome
(2022)
Writer and Screenstory
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
(2023)
Writer
Camera
The First Movie
(2009)
Director of Photography
The Eyes of Orson Welles
(2018)
Director of Photography
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas
(2021)
Director of Photography
The March on Rome
(2022)
Director of Photography
Crew
6 Desires
(2014)
Cinematography
Stockholm, My Love
(2016)
Cinematography
The Ballad of a Great Disordered Heart
(2022)
Creator
Editing