The Amateurs Club is currently part of Forest Fringe's Cinematophilia - a 18 month long project in which the artists of Forest Fringe will teach themselves how to make a feature film, and then make one. Each month they invite a professional to host the session, helping attendees to start learning all the things they might need to know, offering a fascinating glimpse into the lives and work of a collection of people working in cinema.
Daniel Cockburn is a Canadian filmmaker and moving-image artist whose work deals in language, rhythm, and thought experiments. Cockburn’s shorts have been the subject of an internationally touring retrospective, his feature film script The Engineers received the TIFF Telefilm Canada Pitch This! prize, and his feature You Are Here (2010) played Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam, and 40+ other festivals. Called "a major discovery" by the director of the Locarno Film Festival, You Are Here won the Jay Scott Award from the Toronto Film Critics Association and the top prize at the European Media Art Festival, for "trend-setting media art".
He is currently based in London, where he recently was an Associate Artist in Residence at Acme Studios, in conjunction with the inaugural Fellowship in Film Practice from Queen Mary University of London. During this residency period he researched the extension of lecture-performance practice into an expanded-cinema format that involves multiple projections and live video feeds.
The work of our artists is valuable and our events cost money to produce, but we also want them to be as accessible as possible. Therefore, we offer you the opportunity to pay what you can for this event.
