Stephen Dwoskin Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Contact & Informations

Stephen Dwoskin
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PERSONAL DATA OF STEPHEN DWOSKIN

Born in: NEW YORK (USA)
Born on: 01/15/1939
He dies at: LONDON (England)

BIOGRAPHY OF STEPHEN DWOSKIN

Director, screenwriter, actor, writer and painter. The son of Ukrainian immigrants who moved to the Big Apple in search of fortune, at the age of seven he was struck by polio, which would make him disabled for life. After his art studies – he was a student of Willem de Kooning and Josef Albers – he graduated from New York University and the Parsons School of Design. Frequent frequenter of Greenwich Village, in the 60s he approaches experimental cinema, alongside Maya Deren, influenced by the underground films of Jack Smith and Ron Rice. Awarded at the Venice Biennale with his first short film “Asleep” (1961), he moved to London where he joined the new current of British independent cinema (the London Film Maker’s Cooperative). He dedicates himself to formal and linguistic research but also to the exploration of themes distant from mainstream cinema, then producing his films in absolutely independent forms. His work, geographically divided between New York and London, is split between experimentalism – he intervenes on the various components of the film, from the frame to the voice over, to find unprecedented temporal solutions, as in “Dirty” (1965), “Jesus’ Blood “(1972),” Labored Party “(1975),” Just Waiting “(1975),” Central Bazaar “(1976) – and narrative cinema. But the ‘trait d’union’ of his entire work is the exploration of the forms of voyeurism and relationships with the Other, which Dwoskin’s camera, mostly fixed, investigates by adding a tactile dimension to his research. All his early works deconstruct the male gaze system – “Alone” (1964), “Moment” (1968), “Trixi” (1969), “Times For” (1970) – representing a first, discussed approach to studies gender. Influenced by the surrealists, in the 1980s he made films that were permeated with eroticism: “Shadows from Light” (1983), on the photography of Bill Brandt; “Further and Particular” (1988), based on Georges Bataille’s “Ma mère” and Alfred Jarry’s “‘Dr Faustroll”. Among his latest works – in all more than thirty short and feature films – the adaptation of “The Sex of Irene” by Louis Aragon, “Oblivion” (2005), in which he returns to his obsessive search for the relationship between the female body and male perception, which constitutes the sum of his poetics.