Stephen Dwoskin Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

A personal film by experimental director Stephen Dwoskin.

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

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...

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

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...

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 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...

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

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