Stephen Dwoskin — Director (9)

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Pain Is... (1997)
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The film is just this kind wandering through the personal ways and whys of different kinds of pain in different kinds of people. The film searches through the many levels of pain and finds it in its unique position between disaster and pleasure. Pain is..thus plunges us instantly into the midst of controversy and the unknown.

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Girl (1975)
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It is quite revealing how complex the simple form is. Shot one to one, a girl is confronted with nothing more than her thoughts. In the period of watching her (while she is looking at you) her expressions and movements turn into a 'mirror' for the viewer to experience his or herself. The experience is solely emotive between you and her, and occurs in "real" time. (Stephen Dwoskin)

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The Sun and the Moon (2008)
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斯蒂芬·德沃斯金 actor: 斯蒂芬·德沃斯金 / Beatrice Cordua …
'The Sun and the Moon, a film fairy tale, is about two women’s terrifying encounter with ‘Otherness’ in the form of a man, abject and monstrous, and for them to either to witness, accept or partake in his annihilation. All are caught in their own isolation and are fearful of the menace that has to be met. The film, as a personal interpretation of Beauty and the Beast, enciphers concerns, beliefs and desires in seductive images that are themselves a form of camouflage, making it possible to utter harsh truths.'

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Trixi (1969)
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Trixi is Dwoskin’s most convulsive version of his recurrent theme: the confrontation of a solitary girl with the camera. Shot in one continuous 8-hour session. Trixi records Beatrice Cordua’s responses to the situation, from initial shyness, fear and withdrawal through teasing and posturing to naked surrender and final exhaustion …. The camera is highly mobile; often confronting the girl in extreme close-ups, sometimes swooping down from overhead, sometimes searching to “recapture” her …. The camera itself is the object of erotic desire, [in] the sense of giving a performance shifting imperceptibly in a helpless self-exposure in response to its constant stare. Clearly, the form of the film was dictated by the response of the performer. Beatrice Cordua proves Dwoskin’s most expressive subject to date, and the film is correspondingly “open,” the camera having been willing to choose its tactics as direct responses.

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Dyn Amo (1973)
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'Dyn Amo' is a 'drama' exploring the distinction between a person's self and his projection of that self to others; and it's a 'horror movie' tragically suggesting how a projection can become more substantial than the self behind it. Its subjects are role-playing (especially sexual role-playing), and the masochism of playing a role that conforms to others' exploitative interests.

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Central Bazaar (1976)
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other title: 中央街市
For this remarkable experimental film, the provocative avant-garde legend Stephen Dwoskin gathered together a group of strangers and filmed them as they explored their fantasies over a period of five days: a project that now sounds a little like TV's Big Brother. The ceremonial gowns and make-up here not only evoke the eroticism of European horror movies but also highlight the film's interplay between performance and intimacy. Jonas Mekas called it 'theatre of life'...

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Behindert (1974)
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斯蒂芬·德沃斯金 actor: 斯蒂芬·德沃斯金 / 卡洛拉·腊妮尔
other title: 残疾
导演德沃斯金用大胆且艺术的手法以第一人称的方式拍摄了本片。本片联系他自身的残障生活体验,讲述了体格健全的女主角与身残体疾的男主角在一次碰面后触发的对彼此的好奇和好感,以及在日后进一步的接触和磨合中遇到的挑战。影片以长十五分钟的男主角主观镜头下的女主开场,以频繁的近景特写和零碎的日常片段来展现男女爱情生活的碰撞。(豆瓣电影字幕翻译2.0小组)