Stephen Dwoskin

Stephen Dwoskin is a Cinéaste of Russian origin born with Brooklyn on January 15th, 1939. It can be presented like the handicapped realizer avant-gardist of the close friend.

At the nine years age, it is victim of the Poliomyélite which will oblige it to move with crutches or in wheelchair.

It is off formed with the design in Parsons School Design and studies in the New York University.

Dwoskin discovers the movement of the Cinéma underground as of its beginnings with New York in 1959 around Jonas Mekas, Ron Rice, etc

In 1961, it makes its first film Asleep .

In 1964, he moves with London. He also settled with Hamburg where he founded with Werner Nekes the " Hamburg Coop" Film;.

Its films, in their very great majority, are only based on the comparison between the scenario writer and his model (in general of the women who are stripped). Its cinema is clearly connected to its sexuality of autofilmé handicapped person. The scenario writer tries, thanks to a glance of entomologist without kindness on his subject-guinea-pigs, to bore appearances, to expose (in all the directions of the term) his models in order to reveal their cracks, their true personality, under the appearance of the mask. Some detect there voyeurism, masochism or sadism. His wives often have a thick make-up. This overload can cover the whole of a body and approach the Happening.

Author of about thirty experimental films of autobiographical inspiration , Dwoskin is known for his Journal filmed.

Stephen Dwoskin accepted a price with the specialized festival of Knokke-le-Zoute in 1967 for the four short films presented: Chinese Checkers (1963), Alone (1963-64), Being born (1964) and Soliloquy (1964-67).

In 2005, it turns Before the beginning (Without women) with the Belgian scenario writer Boris Lehman. In July 2007, this film is still in the course of assembly.

In 2006, the young British director Claire Fowler carries out Portrait Ace… (16mm; color; 7 '; The United Kingdom/France) a portrait of Dwoskin.

Stephen Dwoskin is lecturer in many prestigious schools and wrote on the cinema.

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