Daniel Cockburn Trailers
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Most Popular Daniel Cockburn Trailers
Total trailers found: 20
The Invocation Trailer (2024)
25 October 2024
An unwinnable online game draws Scorsese, De Niro, and all their parasocial friends into a tangled web of headcanon and fugue.
The Abjuration Trailer (2024)
25 October 2024
Metropolis meets Necropolis, Gotham gets drawn and erased, and Glasgow plays host to a spectacle that nobody will ever see.
Pattern Recognition Trailer (2017)
01 December 2017
To celebrate the BFI's Thriller season, filmmaker Daniel Cockburn explores the power of sound to terrify and unsettle.
The Argument (with annotations) Trailer (2017)
08 September 2017
What begins as an enquiry on things that mean other things itself becomes a thing that means other things, too.
You Are Here Trailer (2011)
05 March 2011
Several story threads about consciousness and perception intertwine in this film by video installation artist Daniel Cockburn.
Ahead of the Curve Trailer (2024)
18 January 2024
Einstein proposed that time might not flow linearly, suggesting that spacetime bends and warps under powerful matter, seen as gravity's fluctuations.
God's Nightmares Trailer (2019)
06 September 2019
In the latest of his idiosyncratic blends of found-film hallucination and metaphysical comedy routine, director Daniel Cockburn imagines the thoughts that rattle through the Almighty’s head late at night, presuming that He has a head at all.
The National Parks Project Trailer (2011)
30 April 2011
In an increasingly urban nation, Canada’s national parks are a treasured escape into extraordinary beauty and rugged wilderness.
Repeat Viewing (After Hours) Trailer (2017)
01 January 2017
Daniel Cockburn discusses that may or may not have seen the film After Hours before
The Impostor (hello goodbye) Trailer (2003)
09 October 2003
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 festival.
Doctor Virtuous Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
Doctor Virtuous can't sleep or stay awake and he's worried about radiation
Correspondence 1989-1999 Trailer (2019)
11 July 2019
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: the rise of video, the need for speed, and of course the cliff-edge sense of global dread.
It Was So Beautiful Trailer (2023)
18 March 2023
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 Cockburn looks at the habits and assumptions that cinema and its viewers have when it comes to imagining pictures of natural beauty and natural destruction.
Metronome Trailer (2002)
26 October 2002
Metronome is a 2002 Canadian short experimental film which mixes appropriated film clips and video by video artist Daniel Cockburn to express ideas about rhythm and order, the self and other minds, and the digital age.
Sculpting Memory Trailer (2015)
05 May 2015
Sculpting Memory places Atom Egoyan in an audiovisual environment woven from the fabric of his own films―a conceptual move that references Egoyan’s adaptation of Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape while evoking Egoyan’s own work as a moving-image installation artist and his concern with the recording and displaying of images.
Figure vs. Ground Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
A roving search across endless colour-fields gradually reveals a solitary singer, struggling to be heard over distortion and doppelgangers.
WEAKEND Trailer (2003)
11 October 2003
Video and audio of Arnold Schwarzenegger as Adam Gibson from The 6th Day (2000) is loosened up and reworked and subjecting him to a cruel series of digital replications.
Rocket Man Trailer (2000)
01 January 2000
A karaoke video which takes the lyrics and sentiment of the Elton John/Bernie Taupin pop classic at face value.
All the Mistakes I've Made, Part 2 (or: How Not To Watch A Movie) Trailer (2015)
11 October 2015
Daniel Cockburn’s exuberantly cerebral, filmically deconstructionist work defies easy categorization, and this program of new work is no exception, from a short that interrogates “things that mean other things before becoming a thing that means other things in itself,” and a performance piece that juxtaposes two postmodern 1994 horror films, John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness and Wes Craven’s New Nightmare to explore both the redemptive and destructive powers of storytelling.
i hate video Trailer (2002)
01 January 2002
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.
