DECO DAWSON
Writer, Director
Deco Dawson is an international award-winning filmmaker from Winnipeg, Canada. His 15 innovative short films remain at times unclassifiable, consensually blurring the lines between dramatic, documentary, animation, and experimental film; often creating fantastical worlds with miniatures, archival footage, meticulous set design, in-camera effects, and grainy, textured film stock.
Dawson is a two-time winner of the Best Short Film Award from the Toronto International Film Festival for his films Keep a Modest Head in 2012 and FILM(dzama) in 2001. Dawson has been host to solo retrospectives of his work in France, Spain, USA and Canada. Dawson is the recipient of the Winnipeg Mayor's Arts Award in 2013 and the 2013 Manitoba Hothouse Filmmaking Award, handed out to the top artist and filmmaker of the year respectively. Dawson's filmography includes films about the Black Dahlia murder, the last Surrealist Jean Benoit and pop artist Marcel Dzama. Dawson has also made an homage film based on The Night of the Hunter using children's toys and miniatures and has crafted a multi-award winning, 9-minute, one-take, hypnogogic drum solo film entitled Dumb Angel.
Deco Dawson has also worked extensively with Guy Maddin, has created music videos for rock bands Metric and Sparkle Horse, has mounted art installations overseas and works regularly as a video projection designer for theatre all across Canada and in the US; the New York Times describing his latest work on Broadway as ‘jaw-dropping'.
www.decodawson.com
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