Biografie

15. Januar 1939 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

28. Juni 2012 · London, England, Vereinigtes Königreich (Herzversagen)

Studied at Parsons School of Design and New York University. Freelance designer, photographer, film director and producer since 1959. Founder member of London Film-makers' Co-op. Lecturer 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.

He traveled to England on a Fulbright Fellowship in 1964 and remained there for the rest of his life. He taught design and film at the Royal College of Art and the London College of Printing.

He studied at New York University in New York City and at the Parsons School of Design where his teachers were Willem De Konning and Josef Albers.

He contracted polio at 9 years old and underwent grueling rehabilitation which entailed confinement in an iron long, muscle transplants, and re-learning to walk painfully with crutches. He spent four years in the hospital before his discharge.

Son of Henry Dwoskin and Irma Dwoskin.

The themes of my work were born there in some ways, because it's really all about this world of relationships without much conversation. Finding ways of communicating and to express the world from that position: that was my childhood.

My film-making is much better suited to being watched by a single viewer. I take the viewers one by one, unlike Hollywood cinema which aims to amalgamate the audience.