Mark Cousins

Director at DIFF 2026

Mark Cousins is an acclaimed director, film critic, author, and curator. Renowned for his essayistic, deeply poetic approach to cinema and visual culture, he is best known for monumental works such as the 15-hour documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011) and Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018). Cousins often shoots, writes, and narrates his own projects, including The Eyes of Orson Welles (2018) and The Storms of Jeremy Thomas (2021), continually exploring place, memory, and the mechanics of cinematic seeing.