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SUMMARY:Dwoskino: Study Day + Acting Out - Stephen Dwoskin film screening
DESCRIPTION:Part of Experimenta focus: Stephen Dwoskin\, a series of film screenings and talks at the BFI Southbank from 1-24 February \nStudy Day + Acting Out: Stephen Dwoskin film screening\nSaturday 12 February 2022 12:00 NFT3 \nAn introduction to Dwoskin through talks\, a keynote presentation by Adrian Martin plus a screening of Acting Out: Stephen Dwoskin\, a film by artist Philomène Hoël. \nDwoskin’s career\, not only as a filmmaker but as a painter\, designer\, writer\, and campaigner\, cut across many central questions of the era: disability\, sexuality\, diaspora\, and technology – especially technologies of memory. On his death in 2012 he left behind an extraordinarily rich archive\, which for more than three years has been the focus of a multi-institutional research team based at the University of Reading. \nThis Study Day will include presentations from in and outside the project\, culminating in a keynote talk from critic Adrian Martin. \nThe Study Day will be followed by the first live screening of Acting Out: Stephen Dwoskin\, a film by artist Philomène Hoël starring researchers Henry K. Miller and Darragh O’Donoghue. \nStudy Day 12pm to 4pm \nThese talks will introduce Dwoskin from a variety of perspectives\, addressing such key themes in his work as disability\, diaspora\, and memory\, and drawing on new research in the Dwoskin archive. The day will include a keynote talk from critic and audiovisual essayist Adrian Martin\, on Dwoskin’s project of ‘a complex\, hybrid cinema\, in which disorientation is a major source of pleasure’. \nRachel Garfield and Will Fowler introduction \nPanel 1– Elisa Adami: Between the Archive and Repertoire: Embodied Memory in Stephen Dwoskin’s Ballet Black (1986)– Darragh O’Donoghue: Inside out and outside in: some thoughts on Dwoskin\, Paula Rego\, disability\, and feminism– Tom Cuthbertson: Before the Beginning/Avant le début: autobiography\, imitation\, control \nPanel 2– Jenny Chamarette and Henry K. Miller: Intoxicated By My Archive \nKeynote talk –  Adrian Martin: Getting Lost in Dwoskin (chaired by Alison Butler) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDisorientation\, on every level\, is a powerful and disconcerting force in the work of Stephen Dwoskin. Focussing on the feature-length films he made in the 1970s\, this talk will explore the productive tension (as identified by Raymond Durgnat in the ’80s) between Dwoskin’s rigorous ‘plastic aesthetics’ (of space\, colour\, composition\, etc.) and his remarkable experimentation with narrative forms. Today\, artists who work in a similar way are frequently told that their films would best ‘fit into an art gallery context’. Yet Dwoskin\, in his time\, held on to the project of a complex\, hybrid cinema\, in which disorientation is a major source of pleasure. \nFilm Screening 4pm to 5pm\nActing Out: Stephen Dwoskin (dir. Philomène Hoël\, 2020) \nThe day will end with the first in-person screening of artist Philomène Hoël’s film Acting Out: Stephen Dwoskin\, in which ‘Hoël plays a high-wire game with her fellow researchers\, exploring the nature of their mutual obsession; filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin\, whose life and fictive world bleeds into their encounter through a series of interventions in disconcerting and hilarious ways’ (Ben Cook). \nBuy tickets from BFI Southbank. \n  \nExperimenta focus: Stephen Dwoskin season\nA unique and challenging filmmaker whose themes include disability\, sexuality\, diaspora\, and memory. \nStephen Dwoskin arrived in London from New York in 1964\, aged 25\, with a trunk of 16mm films shot in the milieu of Andy Warhol and Jonas Mekas. He became known for a series of films in which the camera’s unblinking gaze is returned by his female subjects. Laura Mulvey wrote that he ‘opened a completely new perspective for me on cinematic voyeurism’. In the mid-70s\, Dwoskin turned his gaze on his own body\, disabled in childhood by polio\, before making a number of personal documentaries about disability and diaspora. In the 2000s\, with his mobility severely impaired\, he embraced the possibilities of digital technology to return to the underground and the erotic obsessions that powered his extraordinary 50-year career. \nRachel Garfield and Henry K Miller\, co-programmers \nFor details of the entire programme\, please visit the Experimenta focus: Stephen Dwoskin page.
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