Filmmaker Mark Cousins discussing Like A Huge Scotland at the Fruitmarket
In an immersive, multi-screen installation, award-winning Scotland-based filmmaker, Mark Cousins (The Story of Film: An Odyssey, The Story of Looking) invites audiences to deep-dive into Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham’s tribute to a retreating glacier.
Shot on 8K cameras and displayed through a large-scale, enveloping, four-channel installation, Like A Huge Scotland tells the story of a day in the life of Wilhelmina as she climbs a glacier in the Alps in May 1949.
Details of the series of paintings Barns-Graham made in tribute to her experience - enlarged to 10,000x their original size - are accompanied by a complex sound design by Ania Przygoda, music by Linda Buckley and edited by Timo Langer.
Watch as Mark, Rob Airey of the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust and Fiona Bradley, Director of the Fruitmarket share their insights into this ambitious work.
Like A Huge Scotland was supported by the Scottish Government through the Open Fund.