Directors Lounge proudly presents:
Daniel Cockburn
- zerofunctional video work -
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
21:00
Directors Lounge presents Canadian artist Daniel Cockburn, a current fellow at DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm. Daniel Cockburn often appears in his own films and also is the author of his screenplays. He is not playing himself, but he enacts the main character of his script. “I am interested in this blank face without emotions. It becomes a projection surface for anything that happens in the film, like the Kuleshov Effect”.
His films seem to exist in-between genres. Some of the emotional settings in his films possibly recall psychological mind-sets of science fiction novels of authors like Stanislaw Lem, without having any of the stage designs of Sci-fi films. They do not play in “future times”; however, they envision for example loops of recurring scenes as a maze without exit, or the editing of a film as something the protagonist of the film becomes aware of.
Another strategy of the filmmaker is appropriation. That is most visible in films made of “found footage”; but also in his camera films, he “steals” ideas from other texts, films or music. It thus may lead to interesting interpretations that in his latest project, “You Are Here” – a feature film that is starring actors and uses stage design again – finding and archiving material play a big role in the narration. A story that again imparts some claustrophobic suspense along with scepticism towards simple narratives.
A further border crossing may be Daniel’s involvement with performance art. Here, his interest in direct relations between written text, body and voice become even more apparent.
On Sept. 30, Daniel Cockburn will present at Z-Bar the short films in which he took more liberty and a thus more experimental stance than in some of his other films. And we will see one episode of his upcoming feature “You Are Here” as a preview. The filmmaker will be present at the screening for introduction and Q&A after the show.
(Klaus W. Eisenlohr)
More infos and details at: www.richfilm.de
Artist’s Links:
http://zerofunction.com/
Press Links:
Z-Bar - http://www.z-bar.de/
