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Experimental filmmaker

Stephen Dwoskin (fifteen January 1939 – 28 June 2012)^[one] was a major advanced filmmaker^[two] whose piece of work was closely connected to the 'gaze theory' associated with Laura Mulvey; a meaning disabled filmmaker – though he rejected beingness framed equally such – and an activist for an alternative film civilisation, through such organizations as the London Film-Makers' Co-op and The Other Cinema.^[3] His films are held by the BFI and distributed past LUX. His archive is held at The University of Reading.

Early life

Dwoskin was born in Brooklyn in 1939. At the historic period of nine he contracted polio and underwent a gruelling rehabilitation that entailed solitude in an atomic number 26 lung, muscle transplants and relearning to walk, painfully, with crutches. He spent four years in hospital before he was discharged. Dwoskin used crutches for much of his life. Poliomyelitis progressively restricted his mobility and in later life he used a wheelchair.^[four]

He studied at Parsons The New School for Design, where his teachers included Willem de Kooning and Josef Albers, then at New York University. While working as a graphic designer and art manager, including a stint at CBS and Ballsy Records, he began making short experimental films in 1961, and became role of the bohemian globe of New York 'underground' filmmakers around Jonas Mekas.^[5] He received a Fulbright Scholarship to spend a year in London in 1964; in the upshot he remained at that place until his death.

Career

Dwoskin became a central figure in British avant-garde flick.^[6] He was a co-founder of the London Film-Makers' Co-op in 1966, along with his friend the critic Raymond Durgnat and others.^[vii] In the late 1960s, after making his name at the 1967 Knokke experimental motion picture festival, his films became staples of the hole-and-corner scene, and were shown at festivals and by the New Picture palace Club every bit well as the LFMC.

In the 1970s he began making longer films, starting with Times For (1970), whose bandage included the American performance creative person and filmmaker Carolee Schneemann. Times For as well inaugurated the series of films he made with soundtracks past Gavin Bryars. His 2nd feature, Dyn Amo (1972), shot in a Soho strip club, with a bandage including Jenny Runacre, was praised in the nascent 2d-wave feminist press and shown at the Electric Movie theatre Club.

At nearly this time Dwoskin became associated with The Other Cinema, a distribution collective that handled films from British independents, Third World filmmakers, and European films also fashion out for the fine art-house circuit. In 1977 he collaborated on a BBC documentary about its impending demise. A number of his films from the early 1970s onwards, including Behindert (1974), the first to bargain explicitly with his life as a disabled homo, were made for the German broadcaster ZDF.

Effectually 1980 Dwoskin was a co-founder of the motion-picture show commonage Spectre, intended to produce films for Channel 4, that included Vera Neubauer, Simon Hartog, Anna Ambrose, Michael Whyte, John Ellis, Phil Mulloy, Thaddeus O'Sullivan and Keith Griffiths. In 1984 Anna Ambrose fabricated a documentary about Dwoskin for Channel four, featuring Mulvey, Durgnat, and others, that was shown every bit office of a season of his films.

During the 1980s Dwoskin turned to making personal documentaries: Shadows from Light (1983), about the photographer Bill Brandt, and Ballet Blackness (1986), well-nigh the pioneering Black British dance troupe the Ballets Nègres. ''Face of our Fear'', a picture that addresses attitudes about disability, was commissioned by Aqueduct Iv, Uk, and broadcast in 1992.^[8]

In 1994 Dwoskin made the autobiographical picture show Trying to Osculation the Moon, using home movies his father had shot before he contracted polio. His next commissioned motion picture, Hurting Is (1997), fabricated for Arte/ZDF, was his last; Dwoskin, an avowed avant-gardist, was never an easy fit for television, and the medium was becoming increasingly format-led.

In 2000 Dwoskin returned to the underground with Intoxicated By My Affliction, the kickoff of his films to exist made with digital engineering science. This inaugurated an extraordinary run of neo-secret films, championed in detail by the French mag Trafic and its editor Raymond Bellour, culminating in The Sun and the Moon, a version of the 'Beauty and the Beast' story, fabricated in 2007 with Helga Wretman, Dwoskin's longstanding collaborator Beatrice 'Trixie' Cordua-Schönherr, and Dwoskin himself.

Dwoskin wrote 2 books: Film Is..., about underground/experimental/avant-garde cinema, in 1975 (published past Peter Owen, UK and Overlook Press, U.s.a.), and Ha Ha!, a mixture of text and collaged photographs, inspired past the founder of 'Pataphysics Alfred Jarry, in 1993 (published by The Smith, New York).^[9]

He was a respected teacher and lecturer, property positions at London College of Printing and Majestic College of Fine art, London; San Francisco Art Institute and San Francisco Land Academy, USA; University of Geneva and l'École Supérieure d'Art Visuel, Switzerland.

Dwoskin's films have been screened worldwide including festivals at Cannes, Berlin, Rotterdam, Toronto, Lucarno, Pesaro, Mannheim, Oberhausen, Sydney, Melbourne, Hamburg, San Francisco, Turin, Riga, Madrid, Barcelona, and Benalmádena amid other places.

Retrospectives of his piece of work have been held in New York, London, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Brussels, San Francisco, Geneva, Lucerne, Digne, Berlin, Marseille (1995), Bilbao (1996), Strasbourg (2002), Paris/Pantin (2004), Rotterdam (2006), Lucca (2006), Bruxelles (2006), Lussas (2008), London (2009), and Berlin (2009).

Awards include the L'Âge d'or prize, awarded by the Brussels Motion picture Festival 1982, the prestigious DAAD Fellowship (Berlin) in 1974, and the Rockefeller Media Fellowship in 1994.

Dwoskin's work is represented in London by Vilma Aureate gallery.^[ten] His piece of work and annal is currently role of an AHRC-funded research projection (2018-2021), based at the Academy of Reading.

Filmography

• Comatose (1961)
• American Dream (1961)
• Alone (1963/6)
• Naissant (1964/vi)
• Chinese Checkers (1964/6)
• Soliloquy (1964/vii)
• Me Myself and I (1967/8)
• Take Me (1968/9)
• Moment (1969/70)
• Trixi (1970/1)
• To Tea (1970)
• C-Film (1970)
• Times For (1970)
• Dirty (1971)
• Dyn Amo (1972)
• Daughter (1972)
• Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me However (1972)
• Tod und Teufel (1973)
• Behindert (1974)
• Laboured Party (1975)
• Just Waiting (1975)
• Kleiner Vogel (1976)
• Central Bazaar (1973/6)
• Silent Cry (1977)
• Exterior In (1981)
• Shadows from Light (1983)
• Ballet Black (1986)
• Further and Particular (1988)
• The Spirit of Brendan Behan (1990)
• Face Anthea (1990)
• Face of Our Fear (1992)
• Trying to Kiss the Moon (1994)
• Pain Is... (1997)
• Video Letter (with Robert Kramer) (1991-2000)
• Another Fourth dimension (2002)
• Some Friends (apart) (2002)
• Intoxicated Past My Illness (2001)
• Dearest Frances (In Memorium) (2003)
• Dad (2003)
• Lost Dream (2003)
• Grandpere's Pear (2003)
• Visitors (2004)
• Oblivion (2005)
• Nightshots 1,2,3 (2006/seven)
• The Sun and the Moon (2007)
• Telephone Strip (2007)
• Phone Portrait (2007)
• Mom (2008)
• Ascolta! (2008)
• Dream House (2009)
• Historic period Is... (2012)

References

1. ^ Hudson, David. "Stephen Dwoskin, 1939 – 2012". Keyframe. Fandor. Retrieved iii July 2012.
2. ^ Adrian Martin (July 12, 2012). "Stephen Dwoskin obituary | Moving-picture show | guardian.co.uk". London: Guardian. Retrieved 2012-07-15 .
3. ^ Stephen Dwoskin 1939-2012. Flick Journal by Jim Hoberman. ARTINFO
4. ^ NY Times obituary
5. ^ BFI Stephen Dwoskin biography
6. ^ Obituary, Variety (mag)
7. ^ Knight, Julia; Thomas, Peter (2011). Reaching Audiences: Distribution and Promotion of Culling Moving Paradigm. Intellect Books. p. 68. ISBN9781841501574 . Retrieved 25 December 2018.
8. ^ "Face of Our Fearfulness – Information, Clips and Stills". Luxonline. Retrieved 2011-03-xxx .
9. ^ Stephen Dwoskin. Ha Ha!
10. ^ Vilma Gold. Stephen Dwoskin

External links

• Interview with Stephen Dwoskin, French translation published in Décadrages northward°7 (Leap 2006)
• Stephen Dwoskin obituary
• Stephen Dwoskin bibliography
• Stephen Dwoskin website
• The Dwoskin Project at the University of Reading
• British Picture palace's Back Alleys and Byways
• Stephen Dwoskin at IMDb

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