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One day in 1949, a young Scottish painter climbed a Swiss glacier. The experience rewired her brain, and transformed her art. She spent the rest of her life painting it. Award-winning, Edinburgh-based filmmaker Mark Cousins immerses the audience in this life-changing encounter between the glacier and the unusual brain of a 20th century Scottish woman, the artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham.
The encounter took place on 29th May 1949. The woman was 36 years old; the glacier was 25,000 years old. She was advancing; it was retreating. Barns-Graham was synaesthetic – associating letters, names and people with particular colours – and Cousins explores how her neurodiversity and her encounter with the glacier shaped her vision of the world.
Featuring Cousins' long-time collaborator Tilda Swinton as the voice of Wilhelmina, this feature documentary tells the story of a remarkable artist and a magnificent obsession.
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One day in 1949, a young Scottish painter climbed a Swiss glacier. The experience rewired her brain, and transformed her art. She spent the rest of her life painting it. Award-winning, Edinburgh-based filmmaker Mark Cousins immerses the audience in this life-changing encounter between the glacier and the unusual brain of a 20th century Scottish woman, the artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham.
The encounter took place on 29th May 1949. The woman was 36 years old; the glacier was 25,000 years old. She was advancing; it was retreating. Barns-Graham was synaesthetic – associating letters, names and people with particular colours – and Cousins explores how her neurodiversity and her encounter with the glacier shaped her vision of the world.
Featuring Cousins' long-time collaborator Tilda Swinton as the voice of Wilhelmina, this feature documentary tells the story of a remarkable artist and a magnificent obsession.
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