You Are Here (2011)
March 5, 2011Release Date
You Are Here (2011)
March 5, 2011Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Currently You Are Here is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: MUBI Amazon Channel
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Cast & Crew.
Tracy Wright
The Archivist
R. D. Reid
Dr. Eisenberg
Anand Rajaram
Dr. Mayhew
Emily Davidson-Niedoba
Alan (Tracksuit)
Peter Solala
The Blond Man
Nadia Litz
Marcie
Nadia Capone
The Assistant
Hardee T. Lineham
Voice of the Philosopher
Shannon Beckner
Verna
Robert Kennedy
Bob - A Tracker
Richard Clarkin
Hal
Jenni Burke
Sharon
Alec Stockwell
Edgar
Daniel Cockburn
Writer / Director / Producer
Cabot McNenly
Director of Photography
Duff Smith
Editor
Daniel Bekerman
Producer
Olivia Sementsova
Costume Designer
Nazgol Goshtasbpour
Production Design
Rick Hyslop
Original Music Composer
Millie Tom
Casting
Fred Brennan
Sound Editor
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 5, 2011
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 19m
Budget$73,000
Genres
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Wiki.
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 (Tracy Wright, who died of cancer seven weeks before the film was released) 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 (R.D. Reid) and the Experimenter (Anand Rajaram) 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.
The film features music composed by Rick Hyslop and visual effects by Robert James Spurway, and makes use of excerpts from films by fellow Canadian filmmaker John Price. It has been presented at over forty film festivals worldwide, and compared to the works of Charlie Kaufman, Jorge Luis Borges, and Philip K. Dick. The film is a recipient of both the Jay Scott Prize in 2010, and the EMAF Award in 2011, and with few exceptions, has been received enthusiastically by critics.