2022 marks the hundred-year anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock’s first feature. A century on, Hitchcock remains one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. But how does his vast body of work and legacy hold up in today’s society? Mark Cousins, the award-winning filmmaker behind THE STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSEY, THE EYES OF ORSON WELLES and THE STORY OF FILM: A NEW GENERATION tackles this question and looks at the auteur with a new and radical approach: through the use of his own voice. As Hitchcock rewatches his films, we are taken on an odyssey through his vast career - his vivid silent films, the legendary films of the 1950s and 60s and his later works - in playful and revealing ways.

Mark Cousins is a Northern Irish filmmaker and writer who lives in Edinburgh. His work as a director includes THE STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSEY, an epic 15-hour documentary which won a Peabody Award and the Stanley Kubrick Award; A STORY OF FILM AND CHILDREN a feature doc which world premiered in Cannes; I AM BELFAST a lyrical essay film about his home town; and his fiction debut STOCKHOLM MY LOVE, a grief musical starring and with music by Neneh Cherry. His latest book THE STORY OF LOOKING was recently published in the UK by Canongate.