Stephen Dwoskin Movies

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

'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's personal impression of West Berlin before the Berlin Wall went down.

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...

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...

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

A personal film by experimental director Stephen Dwoskin.