Stephen Dwoskin Movies

More like sketches Phone Portrait and Phone Strip explore the moving image through the uniqueness of the most modern of technologies – the...

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

A naked girl is filmed passing through a gallery of paintings, reminding us of the difference between the plasticity of painting and a body moving in...

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

Short experimental film focusing on body paint and the female form.

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...

In this unique approach to the autobiographical film format, director Stephen Dwoskin pieces together home movies shot by his parents in New York...

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...

'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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

A richly conceived essay about the evolving image of disability. Dwoskin begins with the declaration that the historically distorted images of people...

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...