Granted unprecedented access to hundreds of sketches, drawings, and paintings by Orson Welles—tantalizing, never-before-seen glimpses into the filmmaker’s rich inner life— Mark Cousins sheds new light on the experiences, dreams, desires, and obsessions that inspired his masterpieces.

The inimitable film historian and filmmaker Mark Cousins returns with another of his idiosyncratic essay films, in which his customary and enchanting voice-over starts a posthumous one-way conversation with the enfant terrible of cinema, the one and only Orson Welles.