Movies: Stephen Dwoskin

  • 2013
    My Conversations on Film

    My Conversations on Film (2013)

    My Conversations on Film

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    This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert Kramer and many other visionaries and mavericks of the silver screen – as well as a book seller, a critic...

    My Conversations on Film
  • 1965
    Chinese Checkers

    Chinese Checkers (1965)

    Chinese Checkers

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    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 finally - as if to underline the ambiguity and interchangeability of their respective roles - the co...

    Chinese Checkers
  • 1964
    Naissant

    Naissant (1964)

    Naissant

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

    Naissant
  • 1974
    Behindert

    Behindert (1974)

    Behindert

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    A portrait of a relationship between a physically disabled man and an able-bodied woman....

    Behindert
  • 1978
    Cinématon

    Cinématon (1978)

    Cinématon

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    Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each...

    Cinématon
  • 1968
    Moment

    Moment (1968)

    Moment

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    A static camera records, in one single continuous shot, a woman's face before, during and after orgasm. The act of looking and the limits of the film frame are highlighted in this intimate sexual episode with Tina Fraser. Artist Stephen Dwoskin prese...

    Moment
  • 1970
    C-Film

    C-Film (1970)

    C-Film

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    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 allows the characters to playfully transform themselves. Shot in colour film, C-film exuberates swinging L...

    C-Film
  • 1973
    Death and Devil

    Death and Devil (1973)

    Death and Devil

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    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 ...

    Death and Devil
  • 1969
    Heads

    Heads (1969)

    Heads

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    Includes 'portraits' of Marianne Faithfull, Thelonious Monk and 28 others, some known, some less so....

    Heads
  • 1977
    Open Door: The Other Cinema

    Open Door: The Other Cinema (1977)

    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 community programme unit....

    Open Door: The Other Cinema
  • 1967
    Soliloquy

    Soliloquy (1967)

    Soliloquy

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    Featuring Joan Adler (who also appears in Chinese Checkers), Soliloquy is one of the four early Stephen Dwoskin films that were awarded the Solvey prize at the EXPRMNTL festival in Knokke, Belgium in 1967. “In Soliloquy a girl broods uncertainly over...

    Soliloquy
  • 1976
    Central Bazaar

    Central Bazaar (1976)

    Central Bazaar

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    For this remarkable experimental film, the provocative avant-garde legend Stephen Dwoskin gathered together a group of strangers and filmed them as they explored their fantasies over a period of five days: a project that now sounds a little like TV's...

    Central Bazaar
  • 1984
    The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin

    The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin (1984)

    The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin

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    A exploration of the origin, theory, philosophy and themes of Stephen Dwoskin's films from 1963 to 1984....

    The Cinema of Stephen Dwoskin
  • 1963
    Alone

    Alone (1963)

    Alone

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    Images of a woman lying on a bed appearing to have a sexual fantasy for lack of anything else to do....

    Alone
  • 2015
    Before the Beginning

    Before the Beginning (2015)

    Before the Beginning

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    "Two independent filmmakers, who willingly practise self-fiction, are filming each other in order to communicate better. In spite of their differences in language and style, the film is mainly an attempt to imitate, or even to become, the other, whic...

    Before the Beginning
  • 1979
    Phoelix

    Phoelix (1979)

    Phoelix

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    An aged art connoisseur (Beaumont) and his young female neighbour (Coles), who has a job posing naked in a club, meet and exist in fantasy and reality. Although this raises certain much-discussed questions about the nature of representation, and abou...

    Phoelix
  • 1988
    Further and Particular

    Further and Particular (1988)

    Further and Particular

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    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 main line gives but a small idea of the film, of its erotic style, its choreographic dimension, its st...

    Further and Particular
  • 1969
    Me Myself and I

    Me Myself and I (1969)

    Me Myself and I

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

    Me Myself and I
  • 1981
    Cinématon XIII

    Cinématon XIII (1981)

    Cinématon XIII

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    Reel 13 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series....

    Cinématon XIII
  • 1981
    Outside In

    Outside In (1981)

    Outside In

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    A personal film by experimental director Stephen Dwoskin....

    Outside In