Movies

A naked girl is filmed passing through a gallery of paintings, reminding us of the difference between the plasticity of painting and a body moving in...

Short strip by Stephen Dwoskin.

“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.” –...

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

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

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

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

Liu, crying, sings "Signore, ascolta!" Liu can bear it no more. She sinks to the ground, exhausted and sobbing. Puccini makes tears of joy and of...

A tribute to author’s mother shortly after her death, at the age of 96. The film remembers her through excerpts from earlier footage and...

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

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

Featuring Joan Adler (who also appears in Chinese Checkers), Soliloquy is one of the four early Stephen Dwoskin films that were awarded the Solvey...

Shot in Brixton, London, in 2004, the film is originally a letter addressed to Dwoskin by its authors. It creates a unique space, movement and rhythm...

Born in 1904, Brandt was a shy and enigmatic man who dominated British photography for decades. His early studies of class-divided Britain were...

Avant-garde appeal on behalf of and made by the adventurous leftist London cinema, The Other Cinema, using the facilities provided by the BBC...

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....

“My grandfather was a charming artist, and he would have acted if he had had an audience. In this film, taken from family images, it is a...

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...

A short and lyrical film about looking, and how that look shapes the relationship between those people whom we call friends; some gone, some found,...