Video Catalogue
A roving search across endless colour-fields gradually reveals a solitary singer, struggling to be heard over distortion and doppelgangers. A journey from cacophony to harmony.This video was commissioned by the 640 480 video collective for the VS. programme, a showcase of collaborative video works resulting from tape exchanges… ⊕
2019, 05:00 minutes, colour
tapecode 209.20
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… ⊕
Every revolution has its casualties; the DV revolution is no exception. A documentary of sorts on the making of the video Metronome, here is the frustrated, anguished, entirely pissed off truth that Sony, JVC, Panasonic, and Apple Macintosh don't want you to see.
Canonized intellectual musings meet modern cock rock in a 1-to-1 syllable-to-syllable ratio. Perhaps the ivory tower is not so far from the concert arena as one might think.
Honourable Mention: Images Festival 2002 Homebrew AwardJury Prize: Media City 2003 Best Canadian Film/Video/Installation"In his latest work METRONOME, Daniel Cockburn merges the aesthetics of his Toronto predecessors Mike Hoolboom and Steve Reinke in order to weave a compelling tale of domestic routinization that is equal… ⊕