PRE-ORDER - release date 19 October 2026.
Featuring Tilda Swinton as the voice of Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, this award-winning feature documentary explores the pivotal 1949 experience atop Switzerland’s Grindelwald glacier that reshaped British modernist Barns-Graham’s artistic perspective for decades to come.
Born in St Andrews, Barns-Graham was a member of the St Ives group of modernist artists. 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.
Made with the support of The Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust, the film delves into her archives, private notebooks and diaries from her 65-year career and represents a major reassessment of Barns-Graham’s life and work, and her place in 20th century art.
Please note: this film contains a sequence of flashing lights which might affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
Dual format package contains both DVD and Standard HD Blu-ray Discs
5.1 and 2.0 stereo audio options
English
BBFC certificate: PG
110 minutes
Optional English audio description
Optional English descriptive subtitles
Bonus features include two brand new short films directed by Mark Cousins, Making A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things (15 mins), I Fill My Mind and Eyes (11 mins); the first chance to see Recent Discoveries from the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Archive (18 mins) and a quadrant version of Mark Cousins’ acclaimed gallery installation work Like a Huge Scotland (15 mins).
The package also contains 3x art cards of Barns-Graham paintings, a print of her ‘Statement on Work, 1968’ and new writing from Mark Cousins on films about painters.
While stocks last we will send a free folded A3 film poster out with all orders.
PRE-ORDER - release date 19 October 2026.
Featuring Tilda Swinton as the voice of Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, this award-winning feature documentary explores the pivotal 1949 experience atop Switzerland’s Grindelwald glacier that reshaped British modernist Barns-Graham’s artistic perspective for decades to come.
Born in St Andrews, Barns-Graham was a member of the St Ives group of modernist artists. 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.
Made with the support of The Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust, the film delves into her archives, private notebooks and diaries from her 65-year career and represents a major reassessment of Barns-Graham’s life and work, and her place in 20th century art.
Please note: this film contains a sequence of flashing lights which might affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
Dual format package contains both DVD and Standard HD Blu-ray Discs
5.1 and 2.0 stereo audio options
English
BBFC certificate: PG
110 minutes
Optional English audio description
Optional English descriptive subtitles
Bonus features include two brand new short films directed by Mark Cousins, Making A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things (15 mins), I Fill My Mind and Eyes (11 mins); the first chance to see Recent Discoveries from the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Archive (18 mins) and a quadrant version of Mark Cousins’ acclaimed gallery installation work Like a Huge Scotland (15 mins).
The package also contains 3x art cards of Barns-Graham paintings, a print of her ‘Statement on Work, 1968’ and new writing from Mark Cousins on films about painters.
While stocks last we will send a free folded A3 film poster out with all orders.
