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Oblivion is of a man’s elderly paralytic literally unspeakable monologue of pain and fury as he finds himself caught in the isolation of dependency and sexual loss. His mind attempts to regain a certain equilibrium of desire as the women who he once loved surround his shrinking and shrieking mind with tantalising distain and pornographic voyeurism. They are both real and imaginary and appear, disappear, and suddenly come back to torment his memory. He is motionless and powerless to control even his fantasies, and in the confused, claustrophobic space the inner world of love and hate, death and life, loneliness and togetherness, and sex, all ambiguously collide as if they were torn out of time. His life becomes represented, not as remembrance, but of the traces and signs of an absence. Suggested by the book “Le Con D’Irène” by Louis Aragon.

Adrian Martin wrote:
Dwoskin takes the lurid clichés of literary and cinematic erotica – such as the glimpse of a woman in stockings through a half-open door – and transforms them, through a superb use of constant slow-motion and eerie pieces of found music, into a mode of personal expression close at every moment to the freest poetry or painting.

(2005) Oblivion.mkv

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‘The Silent Cry is a fictionalised narrative film, based on documentary facts and extracts of one English girl’s memories and thoughts, all surrounded, and directed towards her particular dilemma. This dilemma can be summarized as her basic inability to have relationships, especially sustained relationships, and particularly with men. This is the total of her statement and the film. The construction and flow of the film follows the way she thinks – it is her point of view that is followed in the film. So all things are the way she remembers and dwells on them, and which are important to her.’ – S.D.

‘A kind of impressionistic ‘diary’ of a girl and her silent cry for help/understanding/love/identity… Dwoskin has likened the film to a kind of contemporary Alice in Wonderland, ‘a world which we can feel more and more as the filmic tapestry is woven.’ It is also, one should emphasize, beautifully photographed with not only highly effective extreme close-ups but also many finely-patterned almost abstract shots.’ – Ken Wlaschin

447MB | 1h 33mn | 512×384 | avi

http://nitroflare.com/view/9DD833D6D682700/Stephen_Dwoskin_Silent_Cry_1977.mp4

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A film that seeks a balance between feature, form and lighting essay, with autobiographical elements and echoes of the primeval fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. By the former Film Maker in Focus Stephen Dwoskin.

‘The Sun and the Moon, a film fairy tale, is about two women’s terrifying encounter with ‘Otherness’ in the form of a man, abject and monstrous, and for them to either to witness, accept or partake in his annihilation. All are caught in their own isolation and are fearful of the menace that has to be met. The film, as a personal interpretation of Beauty and the Beast, enciphers concerns, beliefs and desires in seductive images that are themselves a form of camouflage, making it possible to utter harsh truths.’
That is Stephen Dwoskin’s short description of his own latest film. A film that seeks a middle path between feature, an essay in form and light, and the biographical notes and the echoes of the well-known fairy tale. One major difference with previous work is the fact that the camerawork was done this time by four different film makers instead of by Dwoskin himself. In view of the fact that Dwoskin is increasingly housebound because of his handicap, this is some kind of enforced domestic cinema: an excessive video film in which the maker does not spare himself. Short of breath, lengthy pants, in the absence of the spoken word. How do the women relate to that strange man in that house? And are the many slow motion images possibly a metaphor? Or a litteral attempt to slow down time, to stretch it, to abolish it?

841MB | 58mn 37s | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/3BE66E2E0ED7A1D/The_Sun_and_the_Moon_(Stephen_Dwoskin_2007).mkv

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