Stephen Dwoskin Movies

“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...

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...

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

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

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...

Short experimental film by Stephen Dwoskin.

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

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

'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...

Intoxicated by My Illness (in which images photographed by several people are extensively superimposed) loosely and dreamily tracks a phase in...

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

A short and lyrical film about looking, and how that look shapes the relationship between those people whom we call friends; some gone, some found,...

“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.” –...

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...

The first three of a series of intriguingly personal and erotic engagements seen in the privacy of darkness and transformed by the iridescence of the...

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

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