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The Story of Looking (2021)

Genre : Documentary

Runtime : 1H 30M

Director : Mark Cousins
Writer : Mark Cousins

Synopsis

As he prepares for surgery to restore his vision, Mark Cousins explores the role that visual experience plays in our individual and collective lives. In a deeply personal meditation on the power of looking in his own life, he guides us through the riches of the visible world, a kaleidoscope of extraordinary imagery across cultures and eras. At a time when we are more assailed by images than ever, he reveals how looking makes us who we are, lying at the heart of the human experience, empathy, discovery and thought. He shares the pleasure and pain of seeing the world, in all its complexity and contradiction, with eyes wide open. As the COVID-19 pandemic brings another dramatic shift of perspective, he reaches out to the other lookers for their vision from lockdown, and he travels to the future to consider how his looking life will continue to develop until the very end.

Actors

Mark Cousins
Mark Cousins
Self

Crews

Mark Cousins
Mark Cousins
Director
Mark Cousins
Mark Cousins
Book
Mark Cousins
Mark Cousins
Screenplay
Mary Bell
Mary Bell
Producer
Adam Dawtrey
Adam Dawtrey
Producer

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