Daniel Cockburn Movies

  • 2024
    The Abjuration

    The Abjuration

    The Abjuration

    102024HD

    Metropolis meets Necropolis, Gotham gets drawn and erased, and Glasgow plays host to a spectacle that nobody will ever see.

    The Abjuration
  • 2024
    The Invocation

    The Invocation

    The Invocation

    02024HD

    An unwinnable online game draws Scorsese, De Niro, and all their parasocial friends into a tangled web of headcanon and fugue.

    The Invocation
  • 2011
    You Are Here

    You Are Here

    You Are Here

    6.12011HD

    Several story threads about consciousness and perception intertwine in this film by video installation artist Daniel Cockburn.

    You Are Here
  • 1970
    The Eden Express

    The Eden Express

    The Eden Express

    01970HD

    In the 1970s, Mark Vonnegut, son of renowned sci-fi author Kurt Vonnegut, leads his friends out of Nixon's broken America to Eden, where they can...

    The Eden Express
  • 2015
    Sculpting Memory

    Sculpting Memory

    Sculpting Memory

    02015HD

    Sculpting Memory places Atom Egoyan in an audiovisual environment woven from the fabric of his own films―a conceptual move that references...

    Sculpting Memory
  • 2011
    The National Parks Project

    The National Parks Project

    The National Parks Project

    52011HD

    In an increasingly urban nation, Canada’s national parks are a treasured escape into extraordinary beauty and rugged wilderness. If the Group...

    The National Parks Project
  • 2017
    Pattern Recognition

    Pattern Recognition

    Pattern Recognition

    02017HD

    To celebrate the BFI's Thriller season, filmmaker Daniel Cockburn explores the power of sound to terrify and unsettle. Using sounds from Hollywood's...

    Pattern Recognition
  • 2017
    The Argument (with annotations)

    The Argument (with annotations)

    The Argument (with annotations)

    02017HD

    What begins as an enquiry on things that mean other things itself becomes a thing that means other things, too. And whatever exactly that thing is,...

    The Argument (with annotations)
  • 1999
    Doctor Virtuous

    Doctor Virtuous

    Doctor Virtuous

    01999HD

    Doctor Virtuous can't sleep or stay awake and he's worried about radiation

    Doctor Virtuous
  • 2015
    All the Mistakes I've Made, Part 2 (or: How Not To Watch A Movie)

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

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

    02015HD

    Daniel Cockburn’s exuberantly cerebral, filmically deconstructionist work defies easy categorization, and this program of new work is no...

    All the Mistakes I've Made, Part 2 (or: How Not To Watch A Movie)
  • 2024
    Ahead of the Curve

    Ahead of the Curve

    Ahead of the Curve

    02024HD

    Einstein proposed that time might not flow linearly, suggesting that spacetime bends and warps under powerful matter, seen as gravity's fluctuations....

    Ahead of the Curve
  • 2002
    Metronome

    Metronome

    Metronome

    02002HD

    Metronome is a 2002 Canadian short experimental film which mixes appropriated film clips and video by video artist Daniel Cockburn to express ideas...

    Metronome
  • 2023
    It Was So Beautiful

    It Was So Beautiful

    It Was So Beautiful

    02023HD

    Can you remember the first time you ever saw the end of the world? Through a mesmerising collage of film clips and sound design, artist Daniel...

    It Was So Beautiful
  • 2019
    Correspondence 1989-1999

    Correspondence 1989-1999

    Correspondence 1989-1999

    02019HD

    Over the course of a ten-year postal correspondence, a pair of movie-going pen-pals share their thoughts on some of 90s cinema’s key traits:...

    Correspondence 1989-1999
  • 2017
    Repeat Viewing (After Hours)

    Repeat Viewing (After Hours)

    Repeat Viewing (After Hours)

    02017HD

    Daniel Cockburn discusses that may or may not have seen the film After Hours before

    Repeat Viewing (After Hours)
  • 2019
    God's Nightmares

    God's Nightmares

    God's Nightmares

    02019HD

    In the latest of his idiosyncratic blends of found-film hallucination and metaphysical comedy routine, director Daniel Cockburn imagines the thoughts...

    God's Nightmares
  • 2003
    The Impostor (hello goodbye)

    The Impostor (hello goodbye)

    The Impostor (hello goodbye)

    02003HD

    One of several works commissioned for The Colin Campbell Sessions and inspired by the makings of video art pioneer Colin Campbell for the Tranz Tech...

    The Impostor (hello goodbye)