A brilliantly perceptive review of Mark Cousin's work on I Am Belfast in Variety.
“If “The Story of Film” taught us anything, it’s that Cousins doesn’t see movies — or the world, for that matter — the same as other people. So why should he make movies the way they do? Though “I Am Belfast” never reveals his actual methods, Cousins assembled the film in an organic and wildly unconventional way: Like a gleaner, picking up scraps life has left behind, he would observe as a painter does, looking for specific colors, and listen like a jazz musician, blending found sounds with recovered echoes from composer David Holmes’ archives to trance-encouraging effect.”
For the full article by Peter Debruge click here.