MARK Cousins’s 2011 documentary The Story Of Film: An Odyssey was heralded as a work of grand ambition, embracing the obsessive task of chronicling film from its nascent beginnings to its status as an internationally established artform.
IN 2014, my heart raced and my nerves frayed as I awaited the result of the independence referendum. Though I had never aligned myself politically with the SNP, I saw the immense value in re-imagining Scotland in the image of its people. A movement that valued and uplifted the vulnerable and the oppressed, instead of leaving them in the dirt, ready to be consumed by cruel and unrepentant austerity.
