A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things

Winner of the Grand Prix Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary IFF - the first time a documentary has won the festival's top prize in its 72-year history.

Voiced by Tilda Swinton, A SUDDEN GLIMPSE OF DEEPER THINGS is a true cinematic experience.

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was a painter, a visionary, a unique thinker.

One day in May 1949, Barns-Graham, then 36 years old and an emerging figure in the modernist St. Ives group of artists, climbed the Grindelwald glacier in Switzerland. She experienced an aesthetic and spiritual epiphany which rewired her brain and transformed her art. That moment resonated through her work for the rest of her life.

Through a visually ravishing immersion into her art and life, director Mark Cousins explores themes of gender, neurodiversity, climate change, and the nature of creativity from youth to old age.