Stephen Dwoskin Movies

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

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

A film about a man, an invisible man, perhaps immobile or displaced, trapped in solitude filling the intervals of reflection and desire. He resides...

“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.” –...

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

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...

Trixi is Dwoskin’s most convulsive version of his recurrent theme: the confrontation of a solitary girl with the camera. Shot in one continuous...

A man walks towards the camera down the end of a street to the sound of 'Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet', a composition by Gavin Bryars based...

Stephen Dwoskin's personal impression of West Berlin before the Berlin Wall went down.

In their lyrical and philosophical video essay, “Telescopic Intimacy”, Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin explore the...

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...

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...

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

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

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

Intoxicated by My Illness (in which images photographed by several people are extensively superimposed) loosely and dreamily tracks a phase in...

Short strip by Stephen Dwoskin.

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...

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