Stephen Dwoskin Movies

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

“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.” –...

“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...

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 film about a man, an invisible man, perhaps immobile or displaced, trapped in solitude filling the intervals of reflection and desire. He resides...

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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