Laura Mulvey, Raymond Bellour, various
Dwoskino : The Gaze of Stephen Dwoskin
Author(s) Laura Mulvey, Raymond Bellour, Raymond Durgnat, Stephen Dwoskin
Format paperback book
Year 2022
Language(s) English
Pages 236 pages
Description
DWOSKINO. The Gaze of Stephen Dwoskin is the culmination of a three-year research project, The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin, conducted at the University of Reading, where his archives are preserved. This book is a unique visual synthesis of Dwoskin's life and times, featuring hundreds of previously unpublished images from his archives and texts by Laura Mulvey, Raymond Bellour, Raymond Durgnat, and Dwoskin himself, among others.
Stephen Dwoskin (1939-2012) began his filmmaking career in the New York underground scene in the early 1960s, then moved to London in 1964, where he became a leading figure in avant-garde cinema and one of the founders of the London Filmmakers Co-operative (now LUX). His early works, such as Dyn Amo (1972), are synonymous with the male gaze. Laura Mulvey wrote that he had "opened up a completely new perspective on cinematic voyeurism" for her and that his work had strongly influenced her seminal work on the male gaze in cinema. From the mid-1970s onward, he turned his camera on his own body, affected by polio during his childhood, in films such as Behindert (1974) and Outside In (1981).