Deco Dawson is a Winnipeg-based experimental filmmaker who specializes in directing short, hand-processed films that are influenced by both vaudeville and classic silent cinema. He is also currently branching out into features and has collaborated extensively with Guy Maddin. Previously to becoming a filmmaker, Dawson produced 13 stage plays, many of which he also wrote and directed.
Learn more about this filmmaker at his official website and watch several of his short films on Vimeo.
Hydro: Tergus/Viscus (2011)
Sluice Box and a Rocker (2009)
The Last Moment (2007)
Elizabeth Short (2006)
Dumb Angel (2005)
Defile in Veil (2003)
The Fever of the Western Nile (2003)
FILM(dzama) (2001)
Lode (2000)
Knout (1999)
Emend (1998)
Luster (1998)
The 7th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival opens with Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Dance of Reality, and will screen Don Swaynos’s Pictures of Superheroes, Drew Tobias’s See You Next Tuesday and loads more cinematic oddities.
The 7th annual WNDX Festival of Moving Image presents a four-part study of Beat cinema by Jack Sargeant, a moveable microcinema curated by Solomon Nagler, plus films by Clint Enns and much more.
The 6th annual WNDX will host a Joyce Wieland retrospective, a Guy Maddin installation, films by Clint Enns, George Kuchar and more.
In Deco Dawson’s Luster, a shoe shine boy has a crisis of faith when he questions his occupation. Will he find happiness in the Bible?
Hosted by the Antimatter Film Festival and Deluge Contemporary Art, Parallel Paradises / Everyday Discrepancies will screen a film by Deco Dawson and more.
The 15th Chicago Underground Film Festival is screening Craig Baldwin’s Mock Up on Mu, plus films by Lisa Barcy, Usama Alshaibi, Josh Koury and more.
The 11th Antimatter Underground Film Festival is screening films by Clint Enns, Craig Baldwin, G.J. Echternkamp, Martha Colburn, Mike Rollo, Jem Cohen and more.
The 10th Antimatter Underground Film Festival is screening films by Jeff Krulik, Julia Ostertag, Mike Rollo, Vanessa Renwick, Tony Gault, Peggy Ahwesh and more.
The 14th annual Chicago Underground Film Festival will be screening film Random Lunacy, plus films by Usama Alshaibi, Andrew Semans, James Fotopoulos and more.
The Antimatter Underground Film Festival is 9 days of wild short films, including ones by filmmakers Martha Colburn, Tony Gault and Leah Meyerhoff.
