Through little-seen archive footage and his characteristically cinematic analysis, Mark Cousins narrates the ascent of fascism in Italy and its fallout across 1930s Europe. Both essay film and historical document, Cousins contextualises history through the now, holding a mirror to a political landscape of a creeping far right and manipulated media.
CREW:
Director: Mark Cousins
Producer: Antonio Badalamenti, Andrea Romeo
Cinematographer: Mark Cousins, Timoty Aliprandi
Sound: Concetta Lombardo, Filippo Lilli
Production
Palomar SPA
Sales:
The Match Factory, Domstrasse 60, 50668 Cologne/Germany, +49 221 539 709-0,
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Awards
Audience Award for Best International Documentary at São Paulo International Film Festival (2022), IDFA ReFrame Award for Creative Use of Archive, Special Mention at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, IDFA 2022
Director
Mark Cousins
Mark Cousins is an Irish-Scottish director and writer. His films have premiered at the Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Venice film festivals. Mark has filmed in Iraq, Sarajevo during the siege, Iran, Mexico, across Asia and in America and Europe.
His books include Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary and The Story of Looking. He has collaborated with Tilda Swinton on innovative film events, and tries to find new, filmic ways to explore his themes: looking, cities, cinema, childhood, and recovery.Selected Filmography
The March on Rome (2022), The Storms of Jeremy Thomas (2021), The Story of Film: A New Generation (2021), The Story of Looking (2021), 40 Days to Learn Film (2019), Storm in My Heart (2018), Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (2018), The Eyes of Orson Welles (2016), Stockholm, My Love (2016), Bigger than the Shining (2016), Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise (2015), I Am Belfast (2015), 6 Desires: DH Lawrence and Sardinia (2014), The Film That Buys the Cinema (2014), Life May Be (2013), Here Be Dragons (2013)
