New ways of seeing: neurodiverse documentaries to watch

“Rubik’s Cube meets Rothko” is how Mark Cousins describes the style of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004), “one of the foremost abstract British artists” (per Wikipedia), though certainly not a household name. It’s an oversight the unconventional documentarian is determined to correct with 2024’s A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things. (And enthusiastically so. A rhapsodic monologue about one particular painting ends with the cinephile behind the 15-hour The Story of Film: An Odyssey proclaiming, “David Lynch would love this.”)

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