Stephen Dwoskin Movies

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...

A portrait of a relationship between a physically disabled man and an able-bodied woman.

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

“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.” –...

'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...

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