Cinema of Intimacy: Films and Videos by Stephen Dwoskin

"The barrior between looking at life and experiencing life can be bridged by most expressive media (but) film has its own strength, it can seep into the instinctive self to allow experience and therefore involvement (…) By attracting and using the erotic; by attracting the instinctive self, the film can pass through into that most unguarded part of us, and open us up to involvement, awareness and experience, and (hopefully) to interrelation." (Stephen Dwoskin)

Born in 1939, Stephen Dwoskin was initially a graphic designer and then worked as an art director for several firms, including CBS Records in New York. In 1961, he started shooting films, a few years before Andy Warhol, with whom he has often been compared. In the mid-1960s, he left the underground film scene in the USA and moved to Great Britain. In 1967 he was one of the founders of the London Film-makers' Co-op. From 1973 on, he taught at the Royal College of Art, and published his book "Film is" in 1975. A year earlier, he was the first grant recipient of the DAAD’s artists’ program. During his stay in Germany, he produced several films, among others, for the Kleine Fernsehspiel. Actress Carola Regnier and dancer Beatrice Cordua-Schönherr from Berlin are featured in some of his films and will be present at the screening.