On the eve of an eye surgery, documentarian Mark Cousins meditates on a lifetime of sights.
After his coy introduction, in which he sets the camera in bed with him and explains the project he intends to undertake today, Cousins dives into some of the highlights from a life as a professional watcher of things. “My eyes saw a motorbike draw a line on a hill,” he recalls, and we watch that bike carve through dirt from afar, and it’s gorgeous. We see the smokestack of a power plant being demolished, and afterward, the soot lingering in the air eerily takes on the shape of a giant man.
Between walking us through his Greatest Visual Hits, Cousins muses on the way human sight develops. “I started life as a baby,” he admits, just in case you weren’t sure, and he imagines an infant’s experience: blurs at first, then an awareness of movement, then an intense attraction to whatever eyes are nearby.
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