Year: 2024
Director: Mark Cousins
Producers: Adam Dawtrey, Mary Bell
Executive Producer: Mark Thomas
Production Company: BOFA Productions
Sales Agent: Reservoir Docs
Cast: Narrated by Tilda Swinton
Screen Scotland support: The film accessed £99,000 through Screen Scotland’s Film Development and Production Fund
Synopsis
A creative biography of the Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. One of the most important women in British modern art, the painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was a highly inspirational figure, whose work was deeply impacted by a pivotal event in her life.
In May 1949, this leading representative of the modernist St. Ives group of artists climbed to the top of the Grindelwald glacier in Switzerland, an experience which was to transform the way she saw the world. She spent the rest of her life capturing its shapes and colours, indeed its very essence.
In his essayistic portrait Cousins delves into complex themes of gender, climate change and creativity, while laying bare the artist’s character and vast imagination so pervasively that he creates the impression we are seeing the world through her eyes.
More information
Premiere: A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things will have its World Premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in July 2024.
Theatrical release: Conic will release A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things in UK and Ireland on 18 October 2024.
Image credits
Stills from A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things, courtesy BOFA Productions