BIOGRAPHY:
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, and 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 currently adapting Mark Vonnegut’s memoir The Eden Express into a feature screenplay, and developing a new one-man multi-screen live show called All of the Other Agains, which will premiere at the Flatpack Festival in Birmingham in 2020.
FILMOGRAPHY:
Feature Film
2010 You Are Here
Awards: Toronto Film Critics Association Jay Scott Prize for emerging talent
EMAF-Award for “trend-setting artwork”, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück
Theatrical Releases: Summer 2011 (Canada), May 2012 (New York)
Festivals: 40+ festivals including Locarno (World Premiere in Official Competition), Toronto International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Göteborg, Santa Barbara, Miami, Image Forum (Tokyo), Ann Arbor, Breda, Istanbul, CPH:PIX, Belfast, Sci-Fi London, European Media Art Festival, Festival REC (Tarragona, Spain), Calgary Underground, Fantasia Montréal, Era New Horizons (Wroclaw, Poland), Whistler International Film Festival.
Short Films
2019 God’s Nightmares – world premiere Toronto International Film Festival
2017 The Argument (with annotations) – world premiere Sept 2017, Toronto International Film Festival
Pattern Recognition (commissioned by BFI Digital), Repeat Viewing (After Hours)
2015 Sculpting Memory (Atom Egoyan profile film, commissioned by National Film Board)
2011 Material (commissioned by National Parks Project)
2010 The Bad Idea Reunion
2007 This Thing is Bigger Than the Both of Us: These Are Facts
2006 Brother Tongue/Langue Fraternelle
2004 Stupid Coalescing Becomers, Continuity, Chicken/Egg: The Williams Equation, Nocturnal Doubling, Figure vs. Ground (with Emily Vey Duke)
2003 Audit, Denominations, The Impostor (hello goodbye), WEAKEND
2002 Subterranea Gargantua (prelude), PSYCHO / 28 x 2, i hate video, Metronome, You Are In A Maze Of Twisty Little Passages, All Different, IdeaL
2001 The Other Shoe, monopedal Joy
2000 Rocket Man
1999 Doctor Virtuous