纪录片自媒体解说素材-新闻动态参考-马克·考辛斯（Mark Cousins/Mark Cousins Fights to Banish Banality, and Find New Ways of Looking at the World
https://cdn.6867.top:6867/A1A/hddoc/news/2022/07/0508/5050wtrmikg2vui.jpg马克·考辛斯（Mark Cousins
Mark Cousins Fights to Banish Banality, and Find New Ways of Looking at the World
在观看了马克·考辛斯（Mark Cousins）的最新纪录片《看起来的故事》（The Story of Looking of Looking）之后，您可能会发现自己以一种非常不同的方式看待世界，这是今年的谢菲尔德docfest的闭幕电影。时间比以往任何时候都更受图像的攻击时间。这部电影开始时，表兄弟正准备进行手术以恢复自己的视力，并看到他探索了视觉体验在我们生活中的作用。这是一个万花筒，特质和深刻的个人项目 - 几乎呼吁观众拥抱“正念”的“正念”。Cousins已经制作了30多年的电影，其中包括Peabody奖赢得15小时的电影：“电影的故事：电影：电影：：他认为我们生活在纪录片的黄金时代，尽管并非没有问题。 ”然而，堂兄认为市场被过度供应。 “制作了许多可怕的纪录片。挑战是如何浏览纪录片的流星风暴。表兄弟还认为，某些类型的公式纪录片在市场上占主导地位。他以惊悚片为例。他说，在他们甚至开始之前，我们就会知道音乐和“故事”将是什么。的确，对于堂兄来说，纪录片制片人最大的挑战与往常一样：避免平淡无奇，并找到一种新的看待世界的方式。这肯定是他在“看故事”中所做的事情这是他在很大程度上用自己的4K相机拍摄的事件和经历的图像来编织其论文 - 从一个站在爱丁堡屋顶烟囱上的男人到树木到树木撞倒，或者被炸毁的电站。 “我每天拍摄……拍摄让我开心。我喜欢它。在“看故事”期间，我们看到表兄弟给他的一只眼睛赋予了新的镜头。 “每个纪录片制造商在某种程度上都是试图获得新镜头的。这就是我们要做的 - 消除白内障，日常生活的模糊以及疲倦，疲惫的观察方式 - 并重新看到生活中的悲剧或狂喜。”纪录片制造商的另一个重大挑战是谋生和建立可持续职业的那些。表亲承认，这很艰难，他说他可以这样做，因为他通常每年拍两三部电影。出现是“电影的故事”的最新消息，在过去的十年中，题为“电影的故事：新一代”。还有一部关于传奇英国人电影制片人。“我的工作非常快，编辑真的很短，”他解释说，他还与类似的团队合作。（“看故事”是由常规合作者玛丽·贝尔（Mary Bell）和亚当·道特（Adam Dawtrey）制作的）。“所以，我们降低了成本。”“看着的故事”也被“两个了不起的女人”所帮助，芭芭拉·蒂默（Barbara Timmer）和凯瑟琳·本卡伊姆（Catherine Benkaim）说。Benkaim来自艺术史背景，喜欢他以前的电影 - 制作了慈善事业，五位数字提供了帮助完成这部电影。考辛斯说：“我立即开始哭泣。”“但这就是发生的事情 - 因此他们帮助完成了这部电影。”
You might find yourself looking at the world in a very different way after watching Mark Cousins’ latest documentary “The Story of Looking,” the closing night film of this year’s Sheffield DocFest.
It’s an uplifting meditation on the power of looking, all at a time when we are more assailed by images than ever. The film begins as Cousins is preparing for surgery to restore his vision, and sees him explore the role that visual experience plays in our lives. It’s a kaleidoscopic, idiosyncratic and deeply personal project – almost a call for the viewer to embrace the “mindfulness” of looking.
Cousins has been making films for more than 30 years, including the Peabody Award winning 15-hour “The Story of Film: An Odyssey.”
He thinks we’re living through a golden age of documentaries, although it’s not without problems.
On the plus side, as filmmaking kit has become more accessible, “never before have there been so many voices, so many styles.”
However, Cousins reckons the market is oversupplied. “There are loads of terrible documentaries being made. The challenge is how to navigate the meteor storm of documentary. It feels like they are coming at us in their thousands.”
Cousins also thinks there’s a danger of certain types of formulaic documentaries dominating the market. He cites thriller docs as an example; before they even start, we know what the music and the “eking out of the story” will be, he says.
These dominant formulae make it hard for directors who are working with small budgets, but trying to innovate with form. Indeed, for Cousins the biggest challenge for documentary filmmakers is the same as it always has been: to avoid banality, and to find a new way of looking at the world.
That’s certainly what he attempts to do in “The Story of Looking,” which knits together its thesis with images of events and experiences that he has filmed largely on his own 4K camera – from a man standing on an Edinburgh rooftop chimney, through to trees being knocked down, or a power station being blown up. “I film every single day…filming just makes me happy. I love it,” says Cousins.
In many ways, he sees his documentary as something of a metaphor for the life of a filmmaker. During “The Story of Looking,” we see Cousins given a new lens for one of his eyes. “Every documentary maker is, in a way, trying to get a new lens. That’s what we’re trying to do – to remove the cataracts, the blurs of everyday life, and the tired, exhausted ways of seeing – and to see afresh, either the tragedy or rapture of life.”
Another big challenge for documentary makers is that of making a living, and building a sustainable career. It’s tough, acknowledges Cousins, who says that he can do so because he typically makes two or three films a year. Coming up is an update of “The Story of Film,” taking in the past ten years of moviemaking titled, “The Story of Film: A New Generation.” There’s also “The Storms of Jeremy Thomas,” a film about the legendary British film producer.
“I work really fast, and edits are really short,” he explains, pointing out that he also works with similar teams. (“The Story of Looking” is produced by regular collaborators Mary Bell and Adam Dawtrey). “So, we keep the costs down.”
“The Story of Looking” was also helped along its way by “two amazing women,” Barbara Timmer and Catherine Benkaim, says Cousins.
He was at Michael Moore’s Traverse City Film Festival when Timmer and Benkaim – who come from art history backgrounds and liked his previous films - made a philanthropic, five figure offer to help complete the film. “I immediately started crying,” says Cousins, noting that in the U.K. there isn’t much of tradition of film funding philanthropy like this. “But that’s what happened – and so they helped complete the film.”
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