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David McGovern is a director, editor and creative based in London. His work centers on reflective, highly-personal moments, using moving image to express how things feel and how things might be. In his short films, he adopts distortion, freeze frames and still images to allow the viewer the opportunity to pause and contemplate.

In addition to his freelance filmmaking, he lectures at University of the Arts London, including Central St Martins and Chelsea School of Art and Design. He encourages students and staff to have an emergent, fluid approach to short film.

At London College of Fashion he is the head of the fashion film short course. Using both theory and practice, the course plays with the ambiguity of fashion film, encouraging the students to widen the definition rather than narrow it. He believes that fashion films should have a conscience and a purpose, even if that purpose is escapism and wonder.

David also works at The Future Laboratory in East London. He examines and abstractly communicates the trends and strategy through video content, as well as developing site-specific installations of future scenarios.

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