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searchaux" style="display:none">2017 experimental short film</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive 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Montgomery</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Starring</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Clare_Coulter" title="Clare Coulter">Clare Coulter</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Cinematography</th><td class="infobox-data">Nikolay Michaylov<sup id="cite_ref-British_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Edited by</th><td class="infobox-data">Daniel Cockburn<sup id="cite_ref-British_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Production<br />company</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="vertical-align: middle;">ZeroFunction Productions<sup id="cite_ref-British_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Distributed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vtape" title="Vtape">Vtape</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Release date</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist film-date"> <ul><li>8 September 2017<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2017-09-08</span>)</span> (<a href="/wiki/Toronto_International_Film_Festival" title="Toronto International Film Festival">TIFF</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Running time</div></th><td class="infobox-data">20 minutes<sup id="cite_ref-Alchemy_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alchemy-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Countries</th><td class="infobox-data">Canada<br />United Kingdom<sup id="cite_ref-British_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>The Argument (With Annotations)</b></i> is a 2017 Canadian-British <a href="/wiki/Short_film" title="Short film">short</a> <a href="/wiki/Experimental_film" title="Experimental film">experimental</a> <a href="/wiki/Drama_film" class="mw-redirect" title="Drama film">drama film</a><sup id="cite_ref-British_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Graduate_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Graduate-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> written, directed, and edited by <a href="/wiki/Video_art" title="Video art">video artist</a> <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Cockburn" title="Daniel Cockburn">Daniel Cockburn</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-British_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The short's first half attempts to deceive the audience into thinking it is a non-fictional <a href="/wiki/Video_essay" title="Video essay">video essay</a>, revealing itself mid-way to be a work of fiction,<sup id="cite_ref-Abstract_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Abstract-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the essay actually the work of the film's <a href="/wiki/Protagonist" title="Protagonist">protagonist</a>, an elderly professor (<a href="/wiki/Clare_Coulter" title="Clare Coulter">Clare Coulter</a>). Submitted as Cockburn's thesis for the degree of <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Fine_Arts" title="Master of Fine Arts">Master of Fine Arts</a> in <a href="/wiki/Film_studies" title="Film studies">Film studies</a> at <a href="/wiki/York_University" title="York University">York University</a>, the film had its world premiere at the <a href="/wiki/2017_Toronto_International_Film_Festival" title="2017 Toronto International Film Festival">42nd Toronto International Film Festival</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and has been warmly received by critics. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Synopsis">Synopsis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Argument_(With_Annotations)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Synopsis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The film begins with an "appropriated-footage essay" about <a href="/wiki/Metaphor" title="Metaphor">metaphor</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief" title="Suspension of disbelief">suspension of disbelief</a>, the unseen narrator's line of thought taking the audience "on a jagged path" past the works of <a href="/wiki/T._S._Eliot" title="T. S. Eliot">T. S. Eliot</a>, <a href="/wiki/Groucho_Marx" title="Groucho Marx">Groucho Marx</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Carpenter" title="John Carpenter">John Carpenter</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Terence_Davies" title="Terence Davies">Terence Davies</a>, featuring clips from numerous films ranging from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Shining_(film)" title="The Shining (film)">The Shining</a></i> to <i><a href="/wiki/300_(film)" title="300 (film)">300</a></i>. when "something else" happens: the film is actually a work of fiction.<sup id="cite_ref-Abstract_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Abstract-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The "argument" made in the first half's <a href="/wiki/Video_essay" title="Video essay">video essay</a> is by the film's female <a href="/wiki/Protagonist" title="Protagonist">protagonist</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Septuagenarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Septuagenarian">septuagenarian</a> professor.<sup id="cite_ref-Prince_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Prince-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The film's second half follows the professor's own life, her daily routine: doing errands, having dinner with her husband, all the while, she is unable to stop thinking about her essay. Written notes appear on screen as she begins to refine her theories and question the accuracy of some of the points she has made.<sup id="cite_ref-Dunn_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dunn-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:30%; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>I like to say "it's a video essay about how metaphor might operate in moving images compared to in language... until it becomes something else." If pressed, I say "and then it suddenly turns into a short film about a woman who has a shitty dinner date with her husband." </p> </blockquote> <p style="padding-bottom: 0;"><cite class="left-aligned" style=""><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Cockburn" title="Daniel Cockburn">Daniel Cockburn</a><sup id="cite_ref-Anderson_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anderson-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></p> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cast">Cast</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Argument_(With_Annotations)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Cast"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Clare_Coulter" title="Clare Coulter">Clare Coulter</a></li> <li>Robin Benger</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Themes,_analysis,_and_interpretations"><span id="Themes.2C_analysis.2C_and_interpretations"></span>Themes, analysis, and interpretations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Argument_(With_Annotations)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Themes, analysis, and interpretations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> Michael Sicinski recognizes the first half of the film as the type of "theory film" as produced in the 1970s, in the "heyday" of journals like <i><a href="/wiki/Screen_(journal)" title="Screen (journal)">Screen</a></i> and <i>Ciné-tracts</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Sicinski_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sicinski-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Calum Marsh observes that the film applies lofty <a href="/wiki/Wittgenstein" class="mw-redirect" title="Wittgenstein">Wittgensteinian</a> language games to <a href="/wiki/Metaphor" title="Metaphor">metaphors</a> in cinema and television, and then "it pivots sharply, and becomes instead a character study of a college lecturer with a lot on her mind", an effect "common to all of Cockburn's work: ever restless, he aspires principally to challenge and surprise."<sup id="cite_ref-Marsh_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Marsh-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sicinski suggests the film "shares traces" in particular with the filmmaker's 2010 feature, <i><a href="/wiki/You_Are_Here_(2010_film)" title="You Are Here (2010 film)">You Are Here</a>.</i><sup id="cite_ref-Sicinski_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sicinski-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> C. J. Prince agrees, but is more explicit:</p><blockquote><p>Toying with cinema, language, and time, the first half essentially functions as a video essay laying out the professor's argument. The film's second half is almost the inverse, turning the camera on the professor's own life, which seems to lack any sort of meaning or metaphor whatsoever. Cockburn's film, much like <i>You Are Here</i>, revels in ambiguity; bringing up questions with no answers, it creates a space where various ideas bounce around freely.<sup id="cite_ref-Prince_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Prince-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p>The audience, "thinking they are watching an appropriated-footage piece, has the rug pulled out from underneath them when they find that they are watching a fiction film".<sup id="cite_ref-Abstract_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Abstract-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The now "hybrid" film<sup id="cite_ref-YK_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-YK-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> makes further demands through the inclusion of the onscreen annotations: they may be interpreted as the professor's running <a href="/wiki/Internal_monologue" class="mw-redirect" title="Internal monologue">internal monologue</a><sup id="cite_ref-Parker_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Parker-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or as her written notes (<a href="/wiki/Aide-m%C3%A9moire" title="Aide-mémoire">aide-mémoire</a>),<sup id="cite_ref-Sicinski_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sicinski-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> among other possibilities, but regardless, they require "multiple viewings just to decipher it all."<sup id="cite_ref-Small_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Small-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The short explores the intersection between <a href="/wiki/Research" title="Research">research</a> and <a href="/wiki/Creativity" title="Creativity">creativity</a><sup id="cite_ref-SACRe_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SACRe-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in a way which calls into question its own narrator's authority.<sup id="cite_ref-Abstract_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Abstract-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The professor questions her own argument, thereby <a href="/wiki/Parodic" class="mw-redirect" title="Parodic">parodically</a> and poetically disrupting her own academic discourse.<sup id="cite_ref-SACRe_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SACRe-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Questioning the authority of philosophical discourse, the film examines and repositions philosophical sites of activity, foregrounding the esoteric linguistic conventions of exclusivity.<sup id="cite_ref-Alchemy_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alchemy-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jamie Dunn suggests that while the film is a "sly critique on the nature of using film images out of context" to prove an intellectual point, it is also a subtle examination of memory and ageing.<sup id="cite_ref-Dunn_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dunn-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similarly, Sicinski notes that the film also "subtly examines social mobility, the frailty of the body and mind, and the written note as an aide memoire against the fallibility of aging memory".<sup id="cite_ref-Sicinski_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sicinski-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Production">Production</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Argument_(With_Annotations)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Production"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Background">Background</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Argument_(With_Annotations)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After graduating from <a href="/wiki/York_University" title="York University">York University</a> with a degree in <a href="/wiki/Film_studies" title="Film studies">film studies</a> in 1999, Cockburn discovered the <a href="/wiki/Experimental_film" title="Experimental film">experimental film</a> community in <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a> and beyond, and spent a decade making <a href="/wiki/Short_films" class="mw-redirect" title="Short films">short films</a> which were "experimental, but which always had a strong narrative bent."<sup id="cite_ref-Whyte_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Whyte-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cockburn completed his first feature, <i>You Are Here</i> (2010), the success of which led to brief stints overseas as an <a href="/wiki/Artist-in-residence" title="Artist-in-residence">artist-in-residence</a> and a guest professor.<sup id="cite_ref-first_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-first-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cockburn returned to York University to begin working towards his <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Fine_Arts" title="Master of Fine Arts">Master of Fine Arts</a> degree in 2014,<sup id="cite_ref-Cockburn_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cockburn-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> making the short films <i><a href="/wiki/Sculpting_Memory" title="Sculpting Memory">Sculpting Memory</a></i> (2015) and <i>The Argument (With Annotations)</i>, the latter also being submitted as his <a href="/wiki/Master%27s_thesis" class="mw-redirect" title="Master's thesis">master's thesis</a>. The same year (2017), Cockburn had begun an <a href="/wiki/Artist-in-residence" title="Artist-in-residence">artist-in-residency</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Research_fellow" title="Research fellow">research fellowship</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Queen_Mary_University_of_London" title="Queen Mary University of London">Queen Mary University of London</a>'s School of Languages, Linguistics and Film in its pilot year.<sup id="cite_ref-QMUL_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QMUL-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The short is considered a Canadian-British co-production.<sup id="cite_ref-British_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Director_Daniel_Cockburn_leads_a_post-show_Q%26A_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Director_Daniel_Cockburn_leads_a_post-show_Q%26A_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Director_Daniel_Cockburn_leads_a_post-show_Q%26A_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="248" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Director_Daniel_Cockburn_leads_a_post-show_Q%26A_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Director_Daniel_Cockburn_leads_a_post-show_Q%26A_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Director_Daniel_Cockburn_leads_a_post-show_Q%26A_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Director_Daniel_Cockburn_leads_a_post-show_Q%26A_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="581" data-file-height="654" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Cockburn" title="Daniel Cockburn">Daniel Cockburn</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Writing_and_filming">Writing and filming</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Argument_(With_Annotations)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Writing and filming"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p> Cockburn originally conceived of the project as a "lecture-performance," like <i>All the Mistakes I've Made</i>:</p><blockquote><p>As I worked on it I realized I'd prefer to make it a short film, and to cast someone else in the speaking role. Because it is essentially two films back-to-back, I needed to give the first one time to develop, for the audience to sink into it; then I needed the second half to be of a pretty similar duration.<sup id="cite_ref-Anderson_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anderson-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p>As the edit progressed, "get it under 20" became Cockburn's goal, "in the back of my mind — mainly psychological": 19 minutes felt like a lot less than 20 minutes, "the way 99 cents feels way less than a dollar"; he was also aware of "not wanting to scare off festival programmers."<sup id="cite_ref-Anderson_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anderson-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Release_and_reception">Release and reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Argument_(With_Annotations)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Release and reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>The Argument (With Annotations)</i> premiered at the <a href="/wiki/2017_Toronto_International_Film_Festival" title="2017 Toronto International Film Festival">42nd Toronto International Film Festival</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-British_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as the first film in the Short Cuts Programme, on 8 September 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two months later, it was screened at a sold-out show at Depth of Field, a semi-annual event showcasing recent York University CMA graduate thesis films in November, at the <a href="/wiki/Art_Gallery_of_Ontario" title="Art Gallery of Ontario">Art Gallery of Ontario</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Graduate_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Graduate-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The short was selected for the 2017 <a href="/wiki/2017_Toronto_International_Film_Festival#Canada's_Top_Ten" title="2017 Toronto International Film Festival">Canada's Top Ten</a> minifestival and screened on 14 January 2018,<sup id="cite_ref-Wilner2_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wilner2-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> along with a Canadian Open Vault free screening of Cockburn's 2010 feature film, <i>You Are Here</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The short had its American premiere at the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_the_Moving_Image" title="Museum of the Moving Image">Museum of the Moving Image</a> in <a href="/wiki/Astoria,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Astoria, New York">Astoria, New York</a>, the First Look Festival, on 15 January 2018, where it was misleadingly billed as a "free-associative interrogation and exemplification of metaphors and their meaning",<sup id="cite_ref-Museum_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Museum-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in an attempt to avoid <a href="/wiki/Spoiler_(media)" title="Spoiler (media)">spoiling</a> the film for the audience.<sup id="cite_ref-Anderson_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anderson-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The European premiere took place on 5 May 2018 at the Tower Mill Cinema in <a href="/wiki/Hawick" title="Hawick">Hawick</a> as a double-bill with <i>The Rare Event</i>, an <a href="/wiki/Experimental_films" class="mw-redirect" title="Experimental films">experimental</a> <a href="/wiki/Docufiction" title="Docufiction">docufiction</a> film by <a href="/wiki/Ben_Rivers" title="Ben Rivers">Ben Rivers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ben_Russell_(filmmaker)" title="Ben Russell (filmmaker)">Ben Russell</a>, at the <a href="/wiki/Alchemy_Film_%26_Moving_Image_Festival" title="Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival">Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Alchemy_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alchemy-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The two films played together in the UK and Ireland.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Critical_response">Critical response</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Argument_(With_Annotations)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Critical response"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Norman_Wilner" title="Norman Wilner">Norman Wilner</a>, writing for <i><a href="/wiki/Now_(newspaper)" title="Now (newspaper)">Now Toronto</a></i>, describes <i>The Argument (With Annotations)</i> as a "dry" film "which elegantly knits the semiotics of cinema into an understated relationship drama about an academic ... who realizes that her partner ... is kind of a tool."<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Cockburn's response to this characterization of the husband was: "Nailed it.")<sup id="cite_ref-Anderson_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anderson-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jason Anderson is quoted as calling the film an "astounding feat of cerebral and cinephilic dexterity" at the Toronto festival.<sup id="cite_ref-Alchemy_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alchemy-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Courtney Small calls it "a smart, witty, and at times dizzying, exploration into language and cinema", and a "stirring look at how we interpret words and how easily we accept things not actually said."<sup id="cite_ref-Small_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Small-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Andrew Parker calls the short a "witty blending of semantics and melodrama": "Not only a discussion about the use of metaphor in a literary and cinematic sense, Cockburn has also created a short that's dripping with visual metaphor in its own right, building to a sumptuous, layered film."<sup id="cite_ref-Parker_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Parker-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Sicinski's review, he suggests that calling it a "theory film" would risk relegating it to the "circular file", and then adds: "Nevertheless, the film is so fitfully alive that we could probably count on it to crawl back out under its own power."<sup id="cite_ref-Sicinski_10-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sicinski-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> Jamie Dunn calls the transition from what the film appears to be, "a smug essay film splicing together scenes from a myriad of familiar works" which makes "some very spurious arguments about the nature of metaphor in cinema", into "an indie drama", something "wonderful":</p><blockquote><p>Just when you think your eyes can't roll any further back into your head something wonderful happens, and we start to follow the woman, a septuagenarian professor, who's made this essay film. Now taking the form of an indie drama, we're with the filmmaker on her daily routine... Written notes appear on screen as the filmmaker begins to refine her theories and question the accuracy of some of the points she has made... After seeing <i>The Argument</i>, we kind of wish all essay films had a similar second half, with the likes of Adam Curtis and Jean-Luc Godard forced to reassess their intellectual leaps.<sup id="cite_ref-Dunn_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dunn-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>One reviewer calls the film "offbeat and quirky" and a "thinking-person's flick" consisting of "rambling philosophy and wordplay", the area in which Cockburn "excels", since he brings <a href="/wiki/Self-awareness" title="Self-awareness">self-awareness</a> to the academic's self-indulgence: "It's amusing and thought provoking if one has the taste for it, otherwise, <i>The Argument</i> might feel like film class mumbo jumbo."<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Accolades">Accolades</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Argument_(With_Annotations)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Accolades"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2017_Toronto_International_Film_Festival" title="2017 Toronto International Film Festival">42nd Toronto International Film Festival</a> • <a href="/wiki/2017_Toronto_International_Film_Festival#Canada's_Top_Ten" title="2017 Toronto International Film Festival">Canada's Top Ten</a>, 2018 (selected in 2017)<sup id="cite_ref-Wilner2_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wilner2-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>The film was also nominated for the <a href="/wiki/Toronto_International_Film_Festival_Award_for_Best_Canadian_Short_Film" title="Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film">Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Short Film</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Anderson_9-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anderson-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but lost to <i><a href="/wiki/Pre-Drink" title="Pre-Drink">Pre-Drink</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Note">Note</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Argument_(With_Annotations)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Note"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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id="cite_note-first-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-first_20-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">At the <a href="/wiki/Impakt_Festival" title="Impakt Festival">Impakt Festival</a> in <a href="/wiki/Utrecht" title="Utrecht">Utrecht</a> in late November and early December 2010, Cockburn was the festival's artist in residence,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as part of the European Media Artists in Residence Exchange.<sup id="cite_ref-QMUL_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QMUL-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over 2011 and 2012, Cockburn was a guest professor at the <a href="/wiki/Braunschweig_University_of_Art" title="Braunschweig University of Art">Braunschweig University of Art</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cockburn_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cockburn-19"><span 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