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God's Nightmares

Daniel Cockburn

2019, 05:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 209.20

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Even the all-powerful creator of the universe has bad dreams from time to time.A panoply of film clips illustrate God's interior monologue, in which he muses about his recurring nightmare of being an everyman.“In the latest of his idiosyncratic blends of found-film hallucination and metaphysical comedy routine, director… ⊕

The Argument (with annotations)

Daniel Cockburn

2017, 20:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 209.19

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The Argument (with annotations) is an appropriated-footage essay about metaphor. Its unseen narrator's line of thought takes us on an unstraight path past the works of T.S. Eliot, Homer, Groucho Marx, John Carpenter, Terence Davies, and Carl Reiner, plus some lackadaisical astronomy and a 1960s television series with a very… ⊕

You are Here

Daniel Cockburn

2010, 78:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 209.18

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Do you suffer under the tyranny of Twitter? Is your life story written in status updates? Are your thoughts search engine optimized? When you picture the future, do you imagine Mark Zuckerberg’s sneaker stomping on a human face—forever? If so, you may find comfort in You are Here, Daniel Cockburn’s playfully… ⊕

You Are In A Maze Of Twisty Little Passages, All Different: Films and Videos by Daniel Cockburn

Daniel Cockburn

2009, 55:00 minutes, colour

tapecode 209.17

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Daniel Cockburn plays at the intersection of avant-garde and narrative cinema. Bringing together innovative storytelling strategies with structuralist experimentation, he breaks open day-to-day reality to reveal the strange codes beneath. Self-reflexive to the point of neurosis, Cockburn is fascinated with how moving images can… ⊕

Brother Tongue / Langue Fraternelle

Daniel Cockburn

2006, 15:46 minutes, colour

tapecode 209.16

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An apocryphal story goes like this: Of two twin brothers in the womb, one foetus was the stronger and absorbed his weaker brother in utero. The parents never knew that they had briefly had two children; only a single child was born, with an out-of-place artifact (maybe a fingernail in the scalp, or perhaps a tiny tooth… ⊕

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