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A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things

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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was a painter, a visionary, an artist. She was a unique thinker. One day in May 1949, Barns-Graham, then 36 years old and an emerging figure in the modernist St. Ives group of artists, climbed the Grindelwald glacier in Switzerland. She experienced an aesthetic and spiritual epiphany which rewired her brain and transformed her art. She spent the rest of her life painting it. Through a cinematic immersion into her art and life, the film explores themes of gender, neurodiversity, climate change, and the nature of creativity from youth to old age.

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Marina Ashioti Little White Lies As much as this is an ode to an artist neglected by the annals of mainstream art history, it’s also about another artist’s personal fixation, affinity, and desire to get as close as possible to their subject. Rated: 3/5 Oct 22, 2024 Full Review Kevin Maher Times (UK) Mark Cousins, an encyclopaedic cinéaste and film-maker, delivers a plate-spinning masterclass with this busy and informative documentary... Rated: 4/5 Oct 18, 2024 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian Film-maker Mark Cousins makes an idiosyncratic but compellingly persuasive case for this artist to be restored (or in fact introduced for the first time) to the pantheon of accepted greatness. Rated: 4/5 Oct 17, 2024 Full Review Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall A bit indulgent, focussing on her art with only passing notes about her private life. But the film clips, audio recordings, archival snapshots, present-day footage and a wonderful collection of her work offer a fascinating glimpse into her unique mind. Rated: 3.5/5 Oct 29, 2024 Full Review Alistair Harkness Scotsman Cousins recreates the hike in the film as part of his own abstract look at her life and work, eschewing the standard tropes of biography in favour of putting us inside her head. Rated: 4/5 Oct 26, 2024 Full Review Erick Estrada Cinegarage 100% a Mark Cousins documentary. [Full review in Spanish] Oct 25, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Synopsis Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was a painter, a visionary, an artist. She was a unique thinker. One day in May 1949, Barns-Graham, then 36 years old and an emerging figure in the modernist St. Ives group of artists, climbed the Grindelwald glacier in Switzerland. She experienced an aesthetic and spiritual epiphany which rewired her brain and transformed her art. She spent the rest of her life painting it. Through a cinematic immersion into her art and life, the film explores themes of gender, neurodiversity, climate change, and the nature of creativity from youth to old age.
Director
Mark Cousins
Producer
Mary Bell, Adam Dawtrey
Screenwriter
Mark Cousins
Production Co
BofA
Genre
Drama, Biography, Documentary
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 30m