Search: Directed by Mark Cousins

Drink in the imposition of expressionism through ergonomics, gaze up, craning at shots considered anew.

In his customary style, Cousins makes a lot of points, not all of them hitting home.

This is very much a film about filmmaking – not the production, not the actors and associated gossip, but the experience of constructing a film on storyboard and set, building it up shot by shot until it becomes more than it first appeared to be on the page.

Cousins' observations are, by their very nature, particular and personal - but that is part of the joy of this sort of essay film.

A fascinating portrait of a woman ahead of her time.

We're transported into a world of cinema; some of it is known, much of it unknown, which surely fires the imagination of any viewing cinephile.

Like the pop-science writer Jonah Lehrer (who Cousins speaks of almost as if he were a guru), Cousins can be inspiring, his enthusiasm contagious; even if some of his details don’t seem to stand up well to scrutiny.