{"id":626836,"date":"2024-07-06T21:10:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T18:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-sudden-glimpse-to-deeper-things-review-an-affecting-artist-study\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T21:10:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T18:10:06","slug":"watch-a-sudden-glimpse-to-deeper-things-review-an-affecting-artist-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-sudden-glimpse-to-deeper-things-review-an-affecting-artist-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things&#8217; Review: An Affecting Artist Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f2f7911d85\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f2f7911d85\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-sudden-glimpse-to-deeper-things-review-an-affecting-artist-study\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98A_Sudden_Glimpse_to_Deeper_Things_Review_An_Affecting_Artist_Study%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things&#8217; Review: An Affecting Artist Study&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-sudden-glimpse-to-deeper-things-review-an-affecting-artist-study\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98A_Sudden_Glimpse_to_Deeper_Things_Review_An_Affecting_Artist_Study%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things&#8217; Review: An Affecting Artist Study&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98A_Sudden_Glimpse_to_Deeper_Things_Review_An_Affecting_Artist_Study%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things&#8217; Review: An Affecting Artist Study&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98A_Sudden_Glimpse_to_Deeper_Things_Review_An_Affecting_Artist_Study%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things&#8217; Review: An Affecting Artist Study&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Not for the first time in his filmmaking career, Northern Irish documentarian Mark Cousins begins his latest work by presenting the audience with a banal image, and persuasively talking us into a reconsideration. The picture is an unremarkable vacation snapshot of British artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham in her seventies or eighties, dressed for a day\u2019s sightseeing in a sensible raincoat, not projecting any particular halo of artistic genius. Cousins\u2019 quizzical narration ponders her pose, her clothes, her comfortably ordinary aura, and wonders how easy these details make her \u2014 in a realm geared against even palpably extraordinary women \u2014 to overlook. A winningly discursive, often lyrical valentine to Barns-Graham and her oeuvre, \u201cA Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things\u201d aims to draw eyes toward her angular modernist interpretations of nature at its most serene and severe, and train them to see the subversive soul expressed therein.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Premiering in the main competition at the Karlovy Vary festival, where it won the top prize from Christine Vachon\u2019s jury, this is among the more broadly <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ealing feature docs to date from the prolific Cousins \u2014 bringing the same energized enthusiasm and artist-to-artist empathy that characterizes his cinema-focused work (notably his \u201cStory of Film\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>) to a fine-arts subject who isn\u2019t exactly a household name. Even that relative obscurity works in Cousins\u2019 favor, however: \u201cA Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things\u201d joins a recent wave of documentary and dramatic films centered on female artists formerly neglected in popular culture (among them \u201cBeyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint,\u201d \u201cKusama: Infinity\u201d and \u201cMaudie\u201d) in a collective effort to amend and expand a patriarchal canon. The film\u2019s Karlovy Vary triumph should yield plenty of further festival bookings and specialist multi-platform distribution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Anyone familiar with Cousins\u2019 idiosyncratic films will know not to expect a standard-issue biodoc of talking heads and archival montage. With a vocal assist from regular Cousins collaborator Tilda Swinton, mellifluously reading various first-person passages from Barns-Graham\u2019s letters and diaries, the film outlines the artist\u2019s life story without abundant biographical detail. We learn that she was born in St. Andrews, Scotland, to landed gentry; that she studied at the Edinburgh College of Art; that she later settled in Cornwall, where she found both scenic inspiration and a modernist artistic community; that she married once, unsuccessfully. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But Cousins is less interested in this kind of narrative than in more abstract, occasionally speculative reflection on her aesthetic and spiritual fixations \u2014 pivoting on a formative 1949 hike to the Grindelwald Glacier in Switzerland. There, she was mesmerized by natural geometries of rock and ice, forms and motifs that would then circle through her work over the next half-century. Such patterns and throughlines in her drawings and paintings are made plain through the simplest of techniques: unfussy, mostly chronological slideshow montages, free from narration, accentuated only by Linda Buckley\u2019s lovely, pensive string score, permitting viewers to digest and silently respond to Barns-Graham\u2019s art as they would in a gallery. Cousins does take the liberty, however, of talking us through her early notebooks: page upon page of intricately color-coded, mathematically conceived compositions that reveal something of Barns-Graham\u2019s synesthesia, a crucial factor in her art that was both loosened and complicated by her increasing fascination with the natural world. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    As usual, Cousins is a critical figure in his own work, with the film built around his growing individual acquaintance with, and affinity for, Barns-Graham\u2019s story. This builds to his own spearheading of a multi-screen installation devoted to her work in Edinburgh\u2019s Fruitmarket exhibition space, which again underlines Cousins\u2019 sense of the permeable bond between visual art and cinema. (\u201cI wonder what David Lynch would make of this?\u201d he says, gazing upon one of her most darkly deconstructed glacier paintings.) Some art historians may debate Cousins\u2019 claims of how sidelined Barns-Graham has been in the popular view of 20th-century British art \u2014 she is exhibited in the Tate, though was left out of a blockbuster Royal Academy exhibition dedicated to her contemporaries \u2014 but his film amounts to a compelling rehanging of her oeuvre either way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A degree of self-indulgence is par for the course \u2014 as in an interlude where the filmmaker gets a tattoo of a Barns-Graham painting, musing aloud as to how much closer this does or doesn\u2019t bring him to her \u2014 but not exactly inappropriate. \u201cA Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things\u201d affectingly articulates how we can form highly personal relationships with artworks by people we\u2019ve never known, celebrated or otherwise. This gives the film license for any number of unexpected angles \u2014 including one thoughtful tangent, that could even have stood greater expansion, on climate change, and the physical disappearance of landscapes that once inspired such abstract beauty. At one point, Cousins asks a biographer of Barns-Graham (who died, aged 91, in 2004) if she would have welcomed a film about herself, only to be told the artist would probably have wanted more of a say in its contents. No artist can control their legacy, and so Cousins in turn invites us to read his moving, infectiously obsessive film as we will.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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