13 Facts About Stephen Dwoskin

Stephen Dwoskin's films are held by the BFI and distributed by LUX.

Stephen Dwoskin's archive is held at The University of Reading.

Stephen Dwoskin spent four years in hospital before he was discharged.

Stephen Dwoskin studied at Parsons The New School for Design, where his teachers included Willem de Kooning and Josef Albers, then at New York University.

Stephen Dwoskin received a Fulbright Scholarship to spend a year in London in 1964; in the event he remained there until his death.

Stephen Dwoskin was a co-founder of the London Film-Makers' Co-op in 1966, along with his friend the critic Raymond Durgnat and others.

At about this time Dwoskin became associated with The Other Cinema, a distribution collective that handled films from British independents, Third World filmmakers, and European films too way out for the art-house circuit.

Around 1980 Stephen Dwoskin was a co-founder of the film collective Spectre, intended to produce films for Channel 4, that included Vera Neubauer, Simon Hartog, Anna Ambrose, Michael Whyte, John Ellis, Phil Mulloy, Thaddeus O'Sullivan and Keith Griffiths.

In 1994 Stephen Dwoskin made the autobiographical film Trying to Kiss the Moon, using home movies his father had shot before he contracted polio.

In 2000 Stephen Dwoskin returned to the underground with Intoxicated By My Illness, the first of his films to be made with digital technology.

Stephen Dwoskin was a respected teacher and lecturer, holding positions at London College of Printing and Royal College of Art, London; San Francisco Art Institute and San Francisco State University, USA; University of Geneva and l'Ecole Superieure d'Art Visuel, Switzerland.

Stephen Dwoskin's films have been screened worldwide including festivals at Cannes, Berlin, Rotterdam, Toronto, Lucarno, Pesaro, Mannheim, Oberhausen, Sydney, Melbourne, Hamburg, San Francisco, Turin, Riga, Madrid, Barcelona, and Benalmadena amongst other places.

Stephen Dwoskin's work is represented in London by Vilma Gold gallery.