Daniel Cockburn
Daniel Cockburn (writer/director/editor) is a Canadian filmmaker. His shorts have been the subject of an internationally touring retrospective, his feature film script The Engineers received the TIFF Telefilm Canada Pitch This! prize, and his feature You Are Here (2010) played Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam, and 40+ other festivals. Called "a major discovery" by the director of the Locarno Film Festival, You Are Here won the Jay Scott Award from the Toronto Film Critics Association and the top prize at the European Media Art Festival, for "trend-setting media art." It has been compared to the work of Charlie Kaufman, Jorge Luis Borges, and Philip K. Dick.
Cockburn has been a resident of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin filmmaker residency, Guest Professor at HBK Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig, Germany, and a resident artist at IMPAKT (Utrecht) as part of the European Media Artists in Residence Exchange (EMARE). He has presented his live performances All The Mistakes I've Made, parts 1 and 2 internationally. He is now based in London, UK, where he is an Artist in Residence at Acme Studios as well as a Research Fellow in Film Practice at Queen Mary University of London.
He is adapting Mark Vonnegut’s memoir The Eden Express into a feature screenplay, and premiered a new one-man multi-screen live show called All of the Other Agains at the Flatpack Festival in Birmingham in 2020.
Artist Code: 209
Videography
2019, 05:00 minutes, colour, English
The Argument (with annotations)
2017, 20:00 minutes, colour, English
2010, 78:00 minutes, colour, English
You Are In A Maze Of Twisty Little Passages, All Different: Films and Videos by Daniel Cockburn
2009, 55:00 minutes, colour, English
Brother Tongue / Langue Fraternelle
2006, 15:46 minutes, colour, English with French Subtitles
2004, 07:00 minutes, colour, English
2004, 04:07 minutes, colour, English
Chicken/Egg: The Williams Equation
2004, 01:00 minutes, colour, English
2004, 21:58 minutes, colour, English
2004, 02:31 minutes, Colour, English
2003, 07:15 minutes, Colour, English
2003, 08:48 minutes, Colour & B/W, english
2003, 01:00 minutes, Colour, English
2002, 02:18 minutes, B/W, English
You Are In A Maze Of Twisty Little Passages, All Different
2002, 09:11 minutes, colour, English
2002, 10:40 minutes, colour, English
2002, 08:00 minutes, colour, English
2002, 03:00 minutes, colour, English
2001, 01:20 minutes, colour, English
2000, 05:00 minutes, colour, English
1999, 05:30 minutes
Critical Writing
by . Canadian Film Institute, 2013.
by . Toronto: Images Festival, 2013.
by . Toronto: Coach House Books, 2008.
by . Now, Jan. 3, 2007, v. 27, no. 18.
by . The State of The Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto, 2006. Toronto: Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in publication, 2006.
by . Canadian Theatre Review, Summer 2006, no. 127.
by . The National Post, Apr. 10, 2004.
by . Pleasure Dome presents Apotheoses of Everything, 2003.
by . Toronto: Vtape, 2003.