Antoine Barraud
Inside out - Le cinéma de Stephen Dwoskin
Author(s) Antoine Barraud
Format book
Year 2013
Language French
Pages 200 pages
Description
Stricken by poliomyelitis at the age of nine, Stephen Dwoskin never let disability take control of his life. On the contrary, he very quickly seized the reins and made it the center, the driving force, the obsession, the stakes, the horror of an immense and deeply moving body of work spanning almost fifty years of cinema. Tirelessly and until his death in June 2012, he refused immobility, pity, and contrite gazes, instead foregrounding his resistance as a filmmaker and as a free man. Each of his films, short or long, broke, radical, ceremonial, questions the concept of pain, explores the burlesque and pathetic nature of this body so heavy and so weak at once, visits the chilling and graphic aesthetic of illness and hospitals that punctuated his life and finally, and above all, exposes to the world his absolute love of women, of their nudity, of their dancing and of their gaze upon him.
This book brings together authors, filmmakers, programmers, critics, theorists, art and film historians, collaborators and admirers of Stephen Dwoskin's work. Maureen Loiret, Pip Chodorov, Gloria Morano, Philippe Azoury, Pierre Léon, Nicole Brenez, Judith Revault d'Allonnes, William Fowler, Andrea Monti, Anthea Kennedy, Ian Wiblin, Louis Skorecki, Štrajk, Cyril Neyrat, Jean-Pierre Rehm, Philippe Grandrieux, Rachel Bénitah, Raymond Bellour, Tatia Shaburishvili, Sabrina Paul and Pascale Cassagnau.