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Mark is a documentary filmmaker and writer specialising in the arts and music. Recent films include "Becoming Cary Grant" (Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival 2017), "The Juilliard Experiment" (2016) "Elvis Costello: Mystery Dance ", "Road Movie: A Portrait of John Adams", "Painting the Moment", a film about the French painter Fabienne Verdier and "Martin Amis's England". He is current developing feature-length documentaries Norman Foster, and the 30-year relationship between Alberto Giacometti and the English painter Isabel Rawsthorne.

Articles By Mark Kidel

Bill Viola (1951-2024) - a personal tribute

Wednesday, 17 July 2024 Read more...

Album: Kokoko! - Butu

Friday, 05 July 2024 Read more...

The Master Musicians of Joujouka, Morocco review - a healing encounter

Tuesday, 18 June 2024 Read more...

Album: John Cale - POPtical Illusion

Monday, 10 June 2024 Read more...

Beth Gibbons, Salle Pleyel, Paris review - a triumph of intimacy

Thursday, 30 May 2024 Read more...

Album: Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown

Monday, 13 May 2024 Read more...

Brancusi, Pompidou Centre, Paris review - a sculptor's spiritual quest for form and essence

Wednesday, 08 May 2024 Read more...

Sabine Devieilhe, Mathieu Pordoy, Wigmore Hall review - enchantment in Mozart and Strauss

Tuesday, 23 April 2024 Read more...

Album: Lizz Wright - Shadow

Thursday, 11 April 2024 Read more...

Album: Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter

Monday, 01 April 2024 Read more...

Death In Venice, Welsh National Opera review - breathtaking Britten

Saturday, 23 March 2024 Read more...

Album: Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves

Saturday, 16 March 2024 Read more...

Album: Yard Act - Where's My Utopia?

Wednesday, 28 February 2024 Read more...

Tom Webber, The Hope and Anchor review - a fresh nod to the past

Saturday, 17 February 2024 Read more...

Albums of the Year 2023: PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying

Wednesday, 20 December 2023 Read more...

Issy Wood, Study for No, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris review - too close for comfort?

Tuesday, 19 December 2023 Read more...

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