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You Are Here is a 2010 Canadian philosophical speculative fiction film written and directed by video artist Daniel Cockburn, which he also co-produced with Daniel Bekerman. Cockburn's first feature film is "hyper-inventive and categorically hard-to-describe", initially billed as a "Borgesian fantasy" or a "meta-detective story", and later as "part experimental gallery film and part philosophical sketch comedy." In You Are Here, Cockburn makes use of the techniques and concepts he had honed over the previous decade as an experimental video artist with "a narrative bent", and "works them into a complex and unique cinematic structure." The film mainly follows a woman searching for the meaning behind a series of audiovisual documents from other universes, seemingly left purposefully for her to find, some of which are shown as vignettes concerning figures such as the Lecturer and the Experimenter interspersed throughout the film. She finds so many of them that they fill a space which she calls the Archive, and herself its Archivist. In time, the Archive appears to resist her attempts at cataloguing and organizing it, and she receives a cell phone instead of the usual document, leading to a fateful encounter with others.
Original Release
03/05/2011
US Release
03/05/2011
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Tracy Wright | The Archivist |
R.D. Reid | Dr. Eisenberg / The Lecturer |
Anand Rajaram | Dr. Mayhew / The Experimenter |
Nadia Capone | The Assistant |
Hardee T. Lineham | The Philosopher / Voice of the Philosopher |
Shannon Beckner | Verna - A Tracker / Verna |
Richard Clarkin | Hal - A Tracker / Hal |
Jenni Burke | Sharon - A Tracker / Sharon |
Robert Kennedy | Bob - A Tracker |
Nadia Litz | Marcie / Marcie - A Field Agent |
Directors
Writers
Daniel Cockburn, Demetre Eliopoulos, David Tebby, John Searle
Cast
Name | Character |
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Tracy Wright | The Archivist |
R.D. Reid | Dr. Eisenberg / The Lecturer |
Anand Rajaram | Dr. Mayhew / The Experimenter |
Nadia Capone | The Assistant |
Hardee T. Lineham | The Philosopher / Voice of the Philosopher |
Shannon Beckner | Verna - A Tracker / Verna |
Richard Clarkin | Hal - A Tracker / Hal |
Jenni Burke | Sharon - A Tracker / Sharon |
Robert Kennedy | Bob - A Tracker |
Nadia Litz | Marcie / Marcie - A Field Agent |
Alec Stockwell | Edgar - A Field Agent / Edgar |
Scott Anderson | Narrating Alan |
Emily Niedoba | Alan in the Stairwell |
Shae Norris | A Child |
Rosie Elia | A Child |
Isaac Durnford | A Child |
Peter Solala | The Blond Man / The Inventor |
London Angelis | Child |
Linlyn Lue | Red Eye Vox Pop |
Vas Saranga | Red Eye Vox Pop |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Brenda Goldstein | Executive Producer |
Matthew Stone | Executive Producer |
Daniel Bekerman | Producer |
Heather K. Dahlstrom | Producer |
Daniel Cockburn | Producer |