Stephen Dwoskin Movies

In this unique approach to the autobiographical film format, director Stephen Dwoskin pieces together home movies shot by his parents in New York...

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

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...

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

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...

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

“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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

Shot in Brixton, London, in 2004, the film is originally a letter addressed to Dwoskin by its authors. It creates a unique space, movement and rhythm...