Stephen Dwoskin
Stephen Dwoskin (born January 15, 1939 in New York City , USA ; † June 28, 2012 in London , Great Britain ) was an American avant-garde video artist , experimental filmmaker , photographer and essayist , who last worked in London, Great Britain and New York lived.
life and work
Stephen Dwoskin studied at the Parsons School of Design and at New York University . He has worked as a freelance designer , photographer , film director and producer since 1959. He was a founding member of the London Film-Maker Co-op . He was a lecturer at the London College of Printing and the Royal College of Art, London, the San Francisco Art Institute and San Francisco State University , the University of Geneva and the École Supérieure d'Art Visuel in Switzerland.
He is the author of the book: Film is: The international free cinema (1975), a standard work on abstract and experimental film. At least two of his films ( Naissant and Take Me ) are considered subversive art. Stephen Dwoskin participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Film Show: Erotic Cinema department .
Literature and Sources
- Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
- documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
Web links
- Biography and works
- Movies
- Vodcast
- Stephen Dwoskin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dwoskin, Stephen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dwoskin, Steven |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 2012 |
| Place of death | London , UK |