Long considered one of the finest video artist in Canada, director Daniel Cockburn makes his first step into feature film with You Are Here, a picture described as a "meta-detective" story that has already drawn comparisons to the work of Charlie Kaufman at the World Premiere in Locarno. Here's the official synopsis:
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Star Tracey Wright - a fixture in Canada's underground theater and indie film scene, also the wife of writer-actor-director Don McKellar - passed away from cancer this past June, making You Are Here and Bruce McDonald's Trigger - also selected for TIFF - the final performances of her career.You Are Here is a Borgesian fantasy composed of multiple worlds, circling and weaving around each other in always-unexpected ways. At the centre of this narrative labyrinth is a reclusive woman (Tracy Wright) who searches for meaning in the mysterious documents that keep appearing to her. Her investigation begins when she finds a tape recording of a man giving a bizarre lecture: calming and sinister at the same time, he instructs how to "get where you need to go". Is this a random find, or a message to her?
Another strange document presents itself, and another ... Swiftly her home becomes an archive brimming with enigmatic texts, images and sounds. She forms deep connections with the people contained in these documents -- the Lecturer, a Prisoner, an Inventor -- each of them, like her, struggling with the unknowable laws of their own worlds. But the organized becomes the organizer when her meticulous system turns on her; the archive is a trickster threatening to pull her mind apart. As realities collapse and intersect around her, she must make a final choice: is she a free agent, or just a tool of the archive?
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