Stephen Dwoskin Movies

  • 2006
    Short Time

    Short Time

    Short Time

    02006HD

    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...

    Short Time
  • 1977
    Open Door: The Other Cinema

    Open Door: The Other Cinema

    Open Door: The Other Cinema

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

    Open Door: The Other Cinema
  • 2003
    Lost Dreams

    Lost Dreams

    Lost Dreams

    72003HD

    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...

    Lost Dreams
  • 2007
    Phone Portrait

    Phone Portrait

    Phone Portrait

    02007HD

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

    Phone Portrait
  • 1969
    Take Me

    Take Me

    Take Me

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

    Take Me
  • 1990
    The Spirit of Brendan Behan

    The Spirit of Brendan Behan

    The Spirit of Brendan Behan

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

    The Spirit of Brendan Behan
  • 2008
    Mom

    Mom

    Mom

    5.82008HD

    A tribute to author’s mother shortly after her death, at the age of 96. The film remembers her through excerpts from earlier footage and...

    Mom
  • 2002
    Another Time

    Another Time

    Another Time

    02002HD

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

    Another Time
  • 1975
    Just Waiting

    Just Waiting

    Just Waiting

    81975HD

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

    Just Waiting
  • 1973
    Death and Devil

    Death and Devil

    Death and Devil

    7.31973HD

    Evolves around the rooms of a house as one of the main characters, Lisiska, is waiting and is studied in depth as she prepares herself for a meeting....

    Death and Devil
  • 2003
    Dad

    Dad

    Dad

    72003HD

    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...

    Dad
  • 1967
    Soliloquy

    Soliloquy

    Soliloquy

    61967HD

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

    Soliloquy
  • 2008
    Ascolta!

    Ascolta!

    Ascolta!

    02008HD

    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...

    Ascolta!
  • 2004
    Visitors

    Visitors

    Visitors

    02004HD

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

    Visitors
  • 1965
    Chinese Checkers

    Chinese Checkers

    Chinese Checkers

    4.51965HD

    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...

    Chinese Checkers
  • 1983
    Shadows from Light

    Shadows from Light

    Shadows from Light

    61983HD

    Born in 1904, Brandt was a shy and enigmatic man who dominated British photography for decades. His early studies of class-divided Britain were...

    Shadows from Light
  • 1975
    The Laboured Party

    The Laboured Party

    The Laboured Party

    8.51975HD

    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...

    The Laboured Party
  • 1988
    Further and Particular

    Further and Particular

    Further and Particular

    71988HD

    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...

    Further and Particular
  • 1961
    Asleep

    Asleep

    Asleep

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    Stephen Dwoskin's first film, made in New York. A woman's feet during a whole night of sleep contracted into four minutes.

    Asleep
  • 2003
    Grandpère's Pear

    Grandpère's Pear

    Grandpère's Pear

    02003HD

    “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...

    Grandpère's Pear