David Cairns
Teaching Fellow
college of art
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Biography
David Cairns is a filmmaker and critic. Graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 1991, he made several short films, culminating in the multi-award-winning CRY FOR BOBO (2001), a ten-minute comedy which portrayed clowns as a persecuted minority. It won the Royal Television Society award for Best Regional Programme and proceeded to pick up twenty-odd prizes at festivals around the world. Struggling to get a feature film off the ground, David then moved sideways to criticism, starting the blog Shadowplay and swiftly garnering commissions from Sight and Sound magazine, The Believer and numerous online publications.
Research Interest
Designing of images
