Person

Daniel Cockburn

Directing · Belleville, Ontario, Canada

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.

• The Eden Express

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  Pattern Recognition

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  You Are Here

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  Sculpting Memory

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  Rocket Man

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  The Argument (with annotations)

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  WEAKEND

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  Metronome

  Self

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  The National Parks Project

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  The Invocation

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• 2024The AbjurationSelf
• 2024The InvocationDirector
• 2024Ahead of the CurveSelf
• 2023It Was So BeautifulDirector
• 2019God's NightmaresDirector
• 2019Correspondence 1989-1999Self
• 2017Pattern RecognitionSelf (voice)
• 2017The Argument (with annotations)Director
• 2017Repeat Viewing (After Hours)Self
• 2015All the Mistakes I've Made, Part 2 (or: How Not To Watch A Movie)Self
• 2015Sculpting MemoryWriter
• 2011The National Parks ProjectDirector
• 2011You Are HereWriter
• 2004Figure vs. GroundDirector
• 2003WEAKENDDirector
• 2003The Impostor (hello goodbye)Daniel Cockburn
• 2002MetronomeSelf
• 2002i hate videoDirector
• 2000Rocket ManDirector
• 1999Doctor VirtuousDoctor Virtuous (Voice)
• —The Eden ExpressDirector