We're busy behind the scenes getting ready for this year's LandxSea Film Festival (12-14 September), but in the meantime we've got another fantastic LandxSea Monthly screening for you this July at Montrose Playhouse! A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things is Mark Cousins's majestic documentary about painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, narrated by Tilda Swinton.
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📅 Monday, 28 July
🕕 Time: 7.30pm
📍 Montrose Playhouse
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 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.
Winner of the Grand Prix - Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2024, critics describe the film as “A rapturous, intensely personal study” (The Guardian); “Moving, infectiously obsessive” (Variety), and “A passionate and lyrical tribute” (Total Film).
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Official trailer for A SUDDEN GLIMPSE TO DEEPER THINGS courtesy of Conic Films.
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Montrose LandxSea FilmFest Returns | 12-14 September 2025
More Than Movies. A Movement.
We've received so many wonderful film submissions from across the country and beyond, and are currently putting the final touches together on this year's exciting festival programme, featuring:
- A wide range of film screenings celebrating our 2025 theme: Creative Ground: Artists Respond to the Climate
- Masterclasses and panel discussions with filmmakers, artists, scientists and campaigners.
- Hands on workshops with local community artists and organisations
- Educational initiatives to inspire the next generation
- Plenty of social activities to bring people together in a spirit of cooperation, dialogue, and celebration
As part of our commitment to nurturing Scottish environmental storytelling, we will also be awarding one filmmaker with the North Light Award 2025 for Best Scottish Environmental Film, with a £500 cash prize - with a panel of judges to be announced soon.
Stay tuned for more festival news and the big reveal of our first films in the programme soon...
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