Video Catalogue
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… ⊕
2003, 08:48 minutes, Colour & B/W
tapecode 209.09
A circular lament in memory of a eulogy."Daniel Cockburn eerily inhabits the delicate tissues of verbal ambiguity... Never has the alternate ending so well eaten its tail as truth cycles in and out of focus, complicated by the multiple voices of the complex yet hapless protagonist." - Lisa Steele, Tranz Tech… ⊕
A videotape whose sole audio/video source is The 6th Day, a Hollywood feature film about cloning. WEAKEND subjects Arnold Schwarzenegger to a cruel series of digital replications until the Sabbath arrives, the videomaker rests, and Arnold gets to speak for himself: a desperate critique of self-indulgent video art.Created for… ⊕
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
2002, 09:11 minutes, colour
tapecode 209.06
Welcome to the working week: a few mornings in the life of Kuleshov's alarm clock.Radio broadcasts (Sisyphus Top 40) and a text-based video game are the constant variables in this structural analysis of difference, similarity, and ennui.Produced for the Trinity Square Video "Devil Music" artist residency.