PLOT: The action of the film 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 & The film attempts to display sexual barriers and misconceptions, and about the role-playing and the confusion around the whole question of sexual and sensual involvement. The essence is the confrontation with self-deception, lies and the real fear of contact with both sexes.’
Based on the German playwright Frank Wedekind’s play Tod Und TeufelRead More »
Stephen Dwoskin
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Stephen Dwoskin – Tod und Teufel AKA Death and Devil (1974)
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Stephen Dwoskin – Times For (1970)
1961-1970ExperimentalStephen DwoskinUnited KingdomQuote:
Four characters go through a series of deeply emotional, psychedelic, sensual, and sexual encounters, evoking the times and textures of the 1960s underground.Read More » -
Stephen Dwoskin – Lost Dreams (2003)
Stephen Dwoskin2001-2010ExperimentalUnited KingdomLost 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 young dreams. They are woven together, like fragments of the mind, and from the ends of film to the corners of the frame, into a memory of them. They are once again embraced and, if only briefly, poetically honoured.Read More »
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Stephen Dwoskin – Intoxicated By My Illness (2001)
Stephen Dwoskin2001-2010DocumentaryExperimentalUnited KingdomIntoxicated by My Illness (in which images photographed by several people are extensively superimposed) loosely and dreamily tracks a phase in Dwoskin’s recent life that took him from medical examination to intensive care.
Mostly it is a reverie about erotic fantasy – especially the excruciating, poignant ambiguity of bodily sensation strung out between intense pain and exquisite pleasure, between the figures of the nurse, who might be imagined as a bondage mistress, and the bondage mistress, who touches the ‘dominated’ body in the most tender way imaginable. Dwoskin periodically overlays known ‘movie music’ in order to ironically foreground his own ‘self dramatisation’, all the while drawing us into a rare and precious intimacy in extremis.Read More »
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Stephen Dwoskin – Girl (1975)
Stephen Dwoskin1971-1980ExperimentalUnited KingdomIt is quite revealing how complex the simple form is. Shot one to one, a girl is confronted with nothing more than her thoughts. In the period of watching her (while she is looking at you) her expressions and movements turn into a ‘mirror’ for the viewer to experience his or herself. The experience is solely emotive between you and her, and occurs in “real” time. (Stephen Dwoskin)Read More »
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Stephen Dwoskin – Take Me (1968)
Stephen Dwoskin1961-1970ExperimentalUnited KingdomA girl is attempting to seduce the beholder : the camera. A visual conveyance through material – film and paint – as the seduction progresses she becomes more covered in paint – representative of the beholder.Read More »
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Stephen Dwoskin – Grandpère’s Pear (2003)
Stephen Dwoskin2001-2010ExperimentalShort FilmUnited Kingdom“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 simple pear that is the object of his panache.”Read More »
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Stephen Dwoskin – Dear Frances (2003)
Stephen Dwoskin2001-2010ExperimentalUnited Kingdom`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.’Read More »
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Stephen Dwoskin – Dad (2003)
2001-2010DocumentaryExperimentalStephen DwoskinUnited Kingdom‘An ode to my father, and perhaps to all fathers. Called a “moving painting” by my sister, the film blends found family footage of the young and the ageing father. It takes the tiny gestures of daily life and turns them into the monumental moments of tenderness and respect.’Read More »