Daniel Cockburn

Daniel Cockburn

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Place of Birth: Belleville, Ontario, Canada

Biography: Daniel Cockburn is a Canadian moving-image artist based in Glasgow. His work deals with rhythm, language, and thought experiments, drawing on sources spanning video games, literature, power ballads, and sci-fi/fantasy/horror. His 2010 feature film You Are Here has been described as “a new kind of narrative for a new technological era” (Mark Peranson, Cinema Scope), “a major discovery” (Olivier Père, Locarno Film Festival), and “a whatsit” (Gavin Smith, Film Comment). He’s currently working on a live performance about medieval music and a movie adaptation of Mark Vonnegut’s memoir The Eden Express.

Movies

All the Mistakes I've Made, Part 2 (or: How Not To Watch A Movie)
All the Mistakes I've Made, Part 2 (or: How Not To Watch A Movie)

Daniel Cockburn’s exuberantly cerebral, filmically deconstructionist work defies easy categorization...

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Metronome
Metronome

Metronome is a 2002 Canadian short experimental film which mixes appropriated film clips and video b...

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The Impostor (hello goodbye)
The Impostor (hello goodbye)

One of several works commissioned for The Colin Campbell Sessions and inspired by the makings of vid...

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Correspondence 1989-1999
Correspondence 1989-1999

Over the course of a ten-year postal correspondence, a pair of movie-going pen-pals share their thou...

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Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition

To celebrate the BFI's Thriller season, filmmaker Daniel Cockburn explores the power of sound to ter...

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Doctor Virtuous
Doctor Virtuous

Doctor Virtuous can't sleep or stay awake and he's worried about radiation...

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Repeat Viewing (After Hours)
Repeat Viewing (After Hours)

Daniel Cockburn discusses that may or may not have seen the film After Hours before...

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Ahead of the Curve
Ahead of the Curve

Einstein proposed that time might not flow linearly, suggesting that spacetime bends and warps under...

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The Abjuration
The Abjuration

Metropolis meets Necropolis, Gotham gets drawn and erased, and Glasgow plays host to a spectacle tha...

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