Stephen Dwoskin Movies

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

“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...

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...

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...

Tranquil video reveries by veteran Dwoskin surrounding visits to his house.

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

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

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...

“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.” –...

A personal film by experimental director Stephen Dwoskin.

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...