Featuring Tilda Swinton as the voice of Scottish painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, this documentary tells the story of a remarkable artist and a magnificent obsession.

In 1949, a young Scottish painter climbed a Swiss glacier. The experience rewired her brain and transformed her art. 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.

The glacier paintings inspired by her experience in Switzerland were the breakthrough in her artistic career. Through a cinematic immersion into her art and life, the film explores themes of gender, neurodiversity, climate change, and the nature of creativity from youth to old age.

Featuring a recorded introduction with director, Mark Cousins.

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