Daniel Cockburn

Known for DirectingBelleville, Ontario, Canada

Daniel Cockburn is a Canadian moving-image artist based in Glasgow. His work deals with rhythm, language, and thought experiments, drawing on sources spanning video games, literature, power ballads, and sci-fi/fantasy/horror. His 2010 feature film You Are Here has been described as “a new kind of narrative for a new technological era” (Mark Peranson, Cinema Scope), “a major discovery” (Olivier Père, Locarno Film Festival), and “a whatsit” (Gavin Smith, Film Comment). He’s currently working on a live performance about medieval music and a movie adaptation of Mark Vonnegut’s memoir The Eden Express.Read more

Movies & web series

The Abjuration

You Are Here

The National Parks Project

Ahead of the Curve

The Invocation

It Was So Beautiful

Correspondence 1989-1999

God's Nightmares

Pattern Recognition

Repeat Viewing (After Hours)

The Argument (with annotations)

All the Mistakes I've Made, Part 2 (or: How Not To Watch A Movie)

Sculpting Memory

Figure vs. Ground

The Impostor (hello goodbye)

WEAKEND

Metronome

i hate video

Rocket Man

Doctor Virtuous

The Eden Express