STEPHEN DWOSKIN - La grande mannequin cherche et trouve sa peau

20 x 20 cm / 176 pages / December 2015

isbn: 978-2-35137-184-8

Text (French only): Rochelle Fack

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The American filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin (1939-2012) is the author of a body of films made up of ruptures, climaxes, connections and infinite extensions, always claimed to have as their starting point and point of view, the handicapped condition of its author. This singularity (unique to date in the history of cinema) should escape conventional study. Rochelle Fack has chosen to follow a path of free associations, attempting to show how the condition of being disabled becomes an aesthetic. Her path questions the fragmented perception that the author has of her body, and the desire to organise this fragmentation into narratives such as the diary, the self-portrait or the autobiography. The aim is to give us a grasp of this cinema, whose gradual evolutions and ongoing reflections open up a unique space, far beyond the representations of disability, eroticism and experimental cinema to which it has been confined. A cinema stolen from death, animated by beings who stand trembling, exceeding, exclusive, on the threshold of speech and embodiment.