Duncan McDowall

Directing

Duncan McDowall

Known for

Directing

Credits

8 titles

Duncan McDowall is a Canadian filmmaker, writer and director whose work spans documentary, fiction and branded media. He began his career writing for documentary television, including How It’s Made, and later directed award-winning short films such as Whalebone, Brief Candle and I, 22. His work has appeared at film festivals, in museum exhibitions and in university curricula.

Known for

Behind the camera

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The exploration of a building's decay, illustrating the building's retreat from the physical world and nature's advance on it.

Painted

2012

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The sequel to "Painted" puts Andrew Wyeth’s ’Christina’s World’ into motion, and explores how bio-electricity galvanizes into discovering muscular intelligence. The light field was setup with 50 lamps, thousands of feet of power cord, and careful visual effects in post.

Brief Candle

2013

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The sequel to "Painted" puts Andrew Wyeth’s ’Christina’s World’ into motion, and explores how bio-electricity galvanizes into discovering muscular intelligence. The light field was setup with 50 lamps, thousands of feet of power cord, and careful visual effects in post.

Brief Candle

2013

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Philly is deeply troubled by the fact that his mother recently sent his older brother Morris to live at a mental health facility. While wandering about on a day that he decides to skip school, Philly learns of one particular historical incident that sheds new light on his brother's and mother's predicament. The Horse Latitudes is a psychological drama that probes popular perceptions of "conformity" and "freedom", and asks what it takes to be functional.

The Horse Latitudes

2013

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Philly is deeply troubled by the fact that his mother recently sent his older brother Morris to live at a mental health facility. While wandering about on a day that he decides to skip school, Philly learns of one particular historical incident that sheds new light on his brother's and mother's predicament. The Horse Latitudes is a psychological drama that probes popular perceptions of "conformity" and "freedom", and asks what it takes to be functional.

The Horse Latitudes

2013

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Somewhere between a computer program, a troubadour romance, the Pietà and a Roman mystery cult - a boy and girl meet.

Step Will Pilgrim

2014

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Somewhere between a computer program, a troubadour romance, the Pietà and a Roman mystery cult - a boy and girl meet.

Step Will Pilgrim

2014

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Don wanted to go to film school, but when he set about gathering the money to make it happen, his life became a film. Mountain in Thailand is a short documentary detailing the meteoric rise and subsequent fall of a young Canadian entrepreneur in London.

Mountain in Thailand

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