Deco Dawson is the professional name of Darryl Kinaschuk,[1] a Ukrainian Canadian experimental filmmaker.
[5] In his early career, he was also a regular collaborator with Guy Maddin, with whom he was credited as editor on The Heart of the World and Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, serving as associate-co-director on the latter.
Dawson first started working in the theatre at the age of 17 where a few years later Guy Maddin attended one of his plays entitled A Silent Act, a 65-minute silent, physical comedy play created in the style of the Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.
In 2016, Dawson provided projected video elements for the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre's production of Chimerica.
His debut feature film Diaspora premiered on October 8, 2022 in Montreal at the 2022 Festival du nouveau cinéma.