BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20211209T204500Z DTEND:20211210T221500Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:The Story of Looking (NC) DESCRIPTION:87 mins United Kingdom 2021 Documentary Dir: Mark Cousins\n\nFeaturing: Mark Cousins\n\n \n\nAs 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 travels to the future to consider how his looking life will continue to develop until the very end.\n\n \n\n"Fascinating\, thought-provoking stuff\, told in Cousins' engaging\, typically impish way" X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

87 mins &ndash\; United Kingdom 2021 &ndash\; Documentary &ndash\; Dir: Mark Cousins
\nFeaturing: Mark Cousins
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\nAs 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 travels to the future to consider how his looking life will continue to develop until the very end.
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\n&ldquo\;Fascinating\, thought-provoking stuff\, told in Cousins&rsquo\; engaging\, typically impish way&rdquo\; \;

\n LOCATION:Triskel Christchurch Triskel Arts Centre Tobin Street Cork UID:e.2489.23970 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260428T134623Z URL:https://chamber.corkchamber.ie/events/details/the-story-of-looking-nc-12-09-2021-23970 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR