Carola Regnier

  • Stephen Dwoskin – Tod und Teufel AKA Death and Devil (1974)

    Stephen Dwoskin1971-1980ExperimentalUnited Kingdom

    PLOT: The action of the film evolves around the rooms of a house as one of the main characters, Lisiska, is waiting and is studied in depth as she prepares herself for a meeting & The film attempts to display sexual barriers and misconceptions, and about the role-playing and the confusion around the whole question of sexual and sensual involvement. The essence is the confrontation with self-deception, lies and the real fear of contact with both sexes.’
    Based on the German playwright Frank Wedekind’s play Tod Und TeufelRead More »

  • Stephen Dwoskin – Tod und Teufel aka Death and devil (1973)

    1971-1980ExperimentalStephen DwoskinUSA

    Without turning his back on his earlier experiments with testing the boundaries, Dwoskin made fictional films, including a superb adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s Tod und Teufel, in which voids and slips are filmed during acts of speech, rather than the characters and their actions.Read More »

  • Stephen Dwoskin – Behindert (1974)

    USA1971-1980ExperimentalStephen Dwoskin

    given how he arrived in the world of film, Dwoskin is usually considered to be an experimental film-maker, which he, like any genuine artist, evidently is, but this attitude leads to a misunderstanding, and makes his films difficult to distribute, because his films are immediatly assumed (in a humdrum, unthinking world) to be primarly dominated by considerations of form rather than substance, and thus not only inaccessible to, but also uninterested in attracting, a broader audience
    But Dwoskin words do not bear this out. As early as 1981, he explained how “Behindert was intended for a television audience and it was easier to get my message accross by showing myself directly on screen. My aim is to make films that work both in the cinema and on television”(…)Read More »

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