The Story of Looking (NC)
87 mins – United Kingdom 2021 – Documentary – Dir: Mark Cousins
Featuring: Mark Cousins
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 travels to the future to consider how his looking life will continue to develop until the very end.
“Fascinating, thought-provoking stuff, told in Cousins’ engaging, typically impish way”
Date and Time
Thursday Dec 9, 2021 Friday Dec 10, 2021
Thu 9, Fri 10 Dec, 3.30pm & 8.45pm
Location
Triskel Christchurch
Triskel Arts Centre
Tobin Street
Cork
Triskel Arts Centre, Cork City, Tobin Street Cork City Cork T12WYYO
Fees/Admission
Tickets cost Full price €10.50 / matinees €7.50
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