Stephen Dwoskin Movies

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

“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.” –...

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...

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...

Filmed in New York in 1964, completed in London 1967.

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,...

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...

Short strip by Stephen Dwoskin.

'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...

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

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

Short experimental film by Stephen Dwoskin.

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

To Tea, made in Holland (at the house of the Dutch avant-garde filmmaker Franz Zwartjes), is a slowed ‘Alice in Roomland’.A guide to...

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