underground film director in a wheelchair

[Felix Atagong]

My first question is not about a particular movie but about an art house, underground movie director who shot a 1967 - 1968 movie, sitting in a wheelchair.

Of course once I know who the director was I'll need to find the movie he made but it could be that it was so 'undergroundish' it never left the acid scene. Or it could just have been used as a backdrop projection during one of those happenings...

I hope someone still remembers something from the Sixties! Thanks.

[Steve Crook]

I hope someone still remembers something from the Sixties! Thanks.

If you remember it, you weren't there

Steve

[asiamiles]

Stephen Dwoskin is an underground director who confined to a wheelchair due to polio.

[Felix Atagong]

This is tremendous news, thanks. Now I only have to find his London based movies (between 1965 and 1968).

[antnield]

Well there's quite a bit of Dwoskin out on DVD in the UK:

The BFI put out Central Bazaar a couple of years back and the disc also contains his simultaneously shot short (effectively it's an outtake) Laboured Party, both produced in 1976.

Lux's Shoot Shoot Shoot compilation includes his terrific short Dirty from 1967, which also appears on the Dwoskin-dedicated set 14 Films alongside Take Me, Girl, Dad, Grandpere'pear, Dear Frances (in memorium), Pain is..., Intoxicated by My Illness, Tod und Teufel, Face Anthea, Behindert, Outside In, Trying to Kiss the Moon and Lost Dreams.

Lastly there's his 1972 feature Dyn Amo available from Re:Voir.

Not all of these are available through the standard channels, so it's worth checking Lux's website and MovieMail alongside the likes of Amazon.

[Felix Atagong]

Thanks for the info, I have already checked Dwoskin's filmography and found the movie I was looking for. Arrived through Amazon. Thanks.