Stephen Dwoskin

A personal film by experimental director Stephen Dwoskin.

The film is just this kind wandering through the personal ways and whys of different kinds of pain in different kinds of people. The film searches...

Avant-garde appeal on behalf of and made by the adventurous leftist London cinema, The Other Cinema, using the facilities provided by the BBC...

In their lyrical and philosophical video essay, “Telescopic Intimacy”, Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin explore the...

Shot in Brixton, London, in 2004, the film is originally a letter addressed to Dwoskin by its authors. It creates a unique space, movement and rhythm...

Born in 1904, Brandt was a shy and enigmatic man who dominated British photography for decades. His early studies of class-divided Britain were...

Includes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so.

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert...

A exploration of the origin, theory, philosophy and themes of Stephen Dwoskin's films from 1963 to 1984.

Described by Stephen Dwoskin as "a documentary without being one," the basis of BEHINDERT is autobiographical: the story of a physically disabled man...

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

Reel 13 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.

Stephen Dwoskin was born in New York in 1939 and began making independent shorts there in 1961. In 1964 he followed his research work to London where...

For this remarkable experimental film, the provocative avant-garde legend Stephen Dwoskin gathered together a group of strangers and filmed them as...

Filmed in New York in 1964, completed in London 1967.

Stephen Dwoskin’s final film is a meditation on the subjective experience and cultural concepts of ageing. The film is an ode to the texture,...

'Dyn Amo' is a 'drama' exploring the distinction between a person's self and his projection of that self to others; and it's a 'horror movie'...

A personal film by experimental director Stephen Dwoskin.

An aged art connoisseur (Beaumont) and his young female neighbour (Coles), who has a job posing naked in a club, meet and exist in fantasy and...

DIRTY is the reincarnation of two girls, a bottle and one bed. Their bodies, hands and face expressions reach out in a refilm look.

The film is just this kind wandering through the personal ways and whys of different kinds of pain in different kinds of people. The film searches...

The film is just this kind wandering through the personal ways and whys of different kinds of pain in different kinds of people. The film searches...

An old man remembers the troubled relationship he had with his mother, the erotic games, and the phantasms in which she managed to attract him. The...

An old man remembers the troubled relationship he had with his mother, the erotic games, and the phantasms in which she managed to attract him. The...

A sexually frustrated man complies with the emotional and erotic wishes of four women, but afterwards he is left even lonelier than before.

Described by Stephen Dwoskin as "a documentary without being one," the basis of BEHINDERT is autobiographical: the story of a physically disabled man...

A static camera records, in one single continuous shot, a woman's face before, during and after orgasm. The act of looking and the limits of the film...

Short experimental film by Stephen Dwoskin.

It is quite revealing how complex the simple form is. Shot one to one, a girl is confronted with nothing more than her thoughts. In the period of...

Evolves around the rooms of a house as one of the main characters, Lisiska, is waiting and is studied in depth as she prepares herself for a meeting....

The film is just this kind wandering through the personal ways and whys of different kinds of pain in different kinds of people. The film searches...

A personal film by experimental director Stephen Dwoskin.

A personal film by experimental director Stephen Dwoskin.

'The Silent Cry is a fictionalised narrative film, based on documentary facts and extracts of one English girl's memories and thoughts, all...

To Tea, made in Holland (at the house of the Dutch avant-garde filmmaker Franz Zwartjes), is a slowed ‘Alice in Roomland’.A guide to...

Avant-garde appeal on behalf of and made by the adventurous leftist London cinema, The Other Cinema, using the facilities provided by the BBC...

The film questions the possible viewing positions with the girl; in other words, who and what is looking at whom? and is the girl alone or with...

A short and lyrical film about looking, and how that look shapes the relationship between those people whom we call friends; some gone, some found,...

Stephen Dwoskin’s final film is a meditation on the subjective experience and cultural concepts of ageing. The film is an ode to the texture,...

A summer in Beechdale Road. A meditation on the passage of time, the time in between things and the time spent together - and apart. The film was...

This amusing short features a real life Labour party canvasser who comes looking for Dwoskin (never realizing that he's the camera man), and instead...

Lost dreams is made out of those little remnants of images, from a single glance to a detailed moment, of those women from youth’s love and...

“My grandfather was a charming artist, and he would have acted if he had had an audience. In this film, taken from family images, it is a...

"Either in its natural state or with its embellishments of makeup, jewels, and hairdos, nothing can restrain the imagination from the most forms of...

'The Sun and the Moon, a film fairy tale, is about two women’s terrifying encounter with ‘Otherness’ in the form of a man, abject...

“Suddenly and sadly my dear friend Frances died. At that moment of loss I needed to hold on to her. The film is just that.” –...

'The Silent Cry is a fictionalised narrative film, based on documentary facts and extracts of one English girl's memories and thoughts, all...

A film about the writing of Brendan Behan realised through three performers wandering through Dublin reciting extracts from his work. Together it...

Intoxicated by My Illness (in which images photographed by several people are extensively superimposed) loosely and dreamily tracks a phase in...

Born in 1904, Brandt was a shy and enigmatic man who dominated British photography for decades. His early studies of class-divided Britain were...

An ode to Stephen Dwoskin's father. The film blends found family footage of the young and the ageing father. It takes the tiny gestures of daily life...

This autobiographical film evolves from the perspective of events and images over a period of over 50 years.

"Two independent filmmakers, who willingly practise self-fiction, are filming each other in order to communicate better. In spite of their...

Stephen Dwoskin brings together members of the Ballet Negres dance company, founded in London in 1946.

Stephen Dwoskin brings together members of the Ballet Negres dance company, founded in London in 1946.

Stephen Dwoskin brings together members of the Ballet Negres dance company, founded in London in 1946.

Stephen Dwoskin brings together members of the Ballet Negres dance company, founded in London in 1946.

Stephen Dwoskin brings together members of the Ballet Negres dance company, founded in London in 1946.

'Dyn Amo' is a 'drama' exploring the distinction between a person's self and his projection of that self to others; and it's a 'horror movie'...

'Dyn Amo' is a 'drama' exploring the distinction between a person's self and his projection of that self to others; and it's a 'horror movie'...

'Dyn Amo' is a 'drama' exploring the distinction between a person's self and his projection of that self to others; and it's a 'horror movie'...

For this remarkable experimental film, the provocative avant-garde legend Stephen Dwoskin gathered together a group of strangers and filmed them as...

Images of a woman lying on a bed appearing to have a sexual fantasy for lack of anything else to do.

His Oriental predator is at first clothed in black, her 'victim' in white; slowly the costumes change, the victim acquiring a veil of mourning, until...

His Oriental predator is at first clothed in black, her 'victim' in white; slowly the costumes change, the victim acquiring a veil of mourning, until...

Seeking in the archives of Robert Kramer, a detective, Keja Ho is looking for her deceased father. His ghostly presence haunts her search and...

‘… Face Of Our Fear is a richly conceived essay about the evolving image of disability. Dwoskin, a highly accomplished experimental...

Filmed in New York in 1964, completed in London 1967.

Filmed in New York in 1964, completed in London 1967.

His Oriental predator is at first clothed in black, her 'victim' in white; slowly the costumes change, the victim acquiring a veil of mourning, until...

Images of a woman lying on a bed appearing to have a sexual fantasy for lack of anything else to do.

Images of a woman lying on a bed appearing to have a sexual fantasy for lack of anything else to do.

Featuring Joan Adler (who also appears in Chinese Checkers), Soliloquy is one of the four early Stephen Dwoskin films that were awarded the Solvey...

A man walks towards the camera down the end of a street to the sound of 'Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet', a composition by Gavin Bryars based...

Two women in a living room: smoking, playing cards, listening to the radio. As often in Dwoskin’s films, the use of masks, make-up and costumes...

Featuring Joan Adler (who also appears in Chinese Checkers), Soliloquy is one of the four early Stephen Dwoskin films that were awarded the Solvey...

Two women in a living room: smoking, playing cards, listening to the radio. As often in Dwoskin’s films, the use of masks, make-up and costumes...

A man walks towards the camera down the end of a street to the sound of 'Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet', a composition by Gavin Bryars based...

Two women in a living room: smoking, playing cards, listening to the radio. As often in Dwoskin’s films, the use of masks, make-up and costumes...

A man walks towards the camera down the end of a street to the sound of 'Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet', a composition by Gavin Bryars based...

Featuring Joan Adler (who also appears in Chinese Checkers), Soliloquy is one of the four early Stephen Dwoskin films that were awarded the Solvey...

Stephen Dwoskin brings together members of the Ballet Negres dance company, founded in London in 1946.

Trixi is Dwoskin’s most convulsive version of his recurrent theme: the confrontation of a solitary girl with the camera. Shot in one continuous...

Trixi is Dwoskin’s most convulsive version of his recurrent theme: the confrontation of a solitary girl with the camera. Shot in one continuous...

Short strip by Stephen Dwoskin.

Evolves around the rooms of a house as one of the main characters, Lisiska, is waiting and is studied in depth as she prepares herself for a meeting....

Evolves around the rooms of a house as one of the main characters, Lisiska, is waiting and is studied in depth as she prepares herself for a meeting....

"Hi Steve" and "Dear Robert" exchanged between two filmmakers: Robert Kramer and Stephen Dwoskin. "The Videoletters strip away the formalities that...

Evolves around the rooms of a house as one of the main characters, Lisiska, is waiting and is studied in depth as she prepares herself for a meeting....

Evolves around the rooms of a house as one of the main characters, Lisiska, is waiting and is studied in depth as she prepares herself for a meeting....

A sexually frustrated man complies with the emotional and erotic wishes of four women, but afterwards he is left even lonelier than before.

A sexually frustrated man complies with the emotional and erotic wishes of four women, but afterwards he is left even lonelier than before.

Stephen Dwoskin's first film, made in New York. A woman's feet during a whole night of sleep contracted into four minutes.

The beginning of the prevalent theme – or question – what keeps us apart, even when together? This question in the later film not just...

Liu, crying, sings "Signore, ascolta!" Liu can bear it no more. She sinks to the ground, exhausted and sobbing. Puccini makes tears of joy and of...