Stephen Dwoskin (born 1939) is an accomplished experimental filmmaker. He studied at Parsons School of Design where he was a student of De Kooning* and Josef Albers* and at New York University, receiving a Fulbright Scholarship to move to London in 1964, where is he still based. He was a co-founder of the London Film-Makers' Co-op. He contracted polio as a child in New York City. This progressively affected his mobility. He is now a wheelchair user. He has written two books Film Is... in 1975 about the International Free cinema, published by Peter Owen, UK and Overlook Press, US and Ha Ha!* in 1993, published by The Smith New York 1993*. In 1967-1968 he won the Solvey Prize at the Knokke Experimental Film Festival in Belgium for a series of short films which established his reputation.
Screenings of his films have been worldwide including Cannes, Berlin, Rotterdam, Toronto, Lucarno, Pesaro, Mannheim, Oberhausen, Sydney, Melbourne, Hamburg, San Francisco, Turin, Riga, Madrid, Barcelona, and Benalmadena amongst other places.
He is also a maker of documentaries: 'Face of Our Fear'[1], one of the films he made to address attitudes to disabilities, was broadcast on Channel Four, UK in 1992.
Awards include L'Âge d'or prize, Brussels Film Festival 1982. He was awarded the presigious DAAD Fellowship (Berlin) in 1974 and the Rockefeller Media Fellowship in 1994.
He is a respected teacher and lecturer, holding positions at London College of Printing and Royal College of Art, London; San Francisco Art Institute and San Francisco State University, USA; University of Geneva and l'Ecole Superieure d'Art Visuel, Switzerland.
Dwoskin has had retrospectives of his work in in New York, London, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Brussels, San Francisco, Geneva, Lucerne, Digne, Berlin, Marseille (1995) , Bilbao (1996); Strasbourg (2002); Paris/Pantin (2004); Rotterdam (2006); Lucca, Italy, (2006); Bruxelles (2006); Lussas (2008); London (2009); Berlin (2009).*
In 2009, the BFI Southbank, London presented a season of his work.