Country: UK
Year: 2012
Duration: 72'
Close-ups of faces, the marks left behind by life and transformed into lines, which can be followed, retracing a person’s existence. Each face is shown in its uniqueness, each body in its beauty, reflecting a history which awaits telling. Friends and relatives are even closer when the gaze doesn’t stop at the wrinkled surface, but lets itself be led toward a place of deeper intimacy.
Biography
film director
Stephen Dwoskin
Stephen Dwoskin (New York, USA, 1939 - London, UK, 2012), after having worked as a designer, photographer and producer, made his first shorts, Asleep and American Dream, in 1961. In 1964, he moved to London, where he taught at the Royal College of Art and later at the London College of Printing. He has published a book on the American and British avant-garde, Film Is, and a book of his photomontages, Ha, Ha! La Solution Imaginaire. He has directed over forty films, many of which have been screened at the major festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, Rotterdam and Toronto. A number of his films have been presented at the Torino Film Festival, including his last shorts, Mom and Ascolta! in 2008.
FILMOGRAFIA
Asleep (cm, 1961), American Dream (cm, 1961), Me Myself and I (cm, 1967), Times for (1971), Dyn Amo (1972), Jesus Blood (cm, 1972), Behindert (1974), Central Bazaar (1976), Silent Cry (1977), Outside in (1981), Shadows from Light (mm, 1983), Ballet Black (1986), Further and Particular (1988), Face Anthea (mm, 1990), Face of Our Fear (mm, 1992), Trying to Kiss the Moon (1994), Pain Is... (1997), Lost Dreams (cm, 2003), Visitors (2004), Oblivion (2005), The Sun and the Moon (2007), Mom (cm, 2008), Ascolta! (cm, 2008), Age Is… (2012).
Declaration
film director
“There was a time when older people had a certain value, they were respected for their wisdom and knowledge. At a very early stage of preparation for this project, I thought about American Indians. Those faces that for me become parchments, those wrinkles that tell so many stories. Their beauty alone undoes the concept of age. What strikes me when seeing these people is the value, the invaluable which those eyes have seen, those hands have felt. Innocence was never very interesting for me. I was always more interested in fullness, complexity, the ambiguity of being.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto/director, story
Stephen Dwoskin
fotografia/cinematography Rachel Bénitah, Stephen Dwoskin, Véronique Goël montaggio/film editing Stephen Dwoskin, Tatia Shaburishvili
musica/music Alexander Balanescu
suono/sound Philippe Ciompi
interpreti/cast Antoine Barraud, Gilles Benardeau, Françoise Bridel, Tonino De Bernardi, Mary Dickinson, Michele Fuirer, Rachel Garfield, Samantha Granger, Alexis Kavershine, Anthéa Kennedy, S. Louis, Valérie Massadian, Mel Massadian, Leo Mingrone, Arnold Schmidt, Tatia Shaburishvili, Ian Wiblin
produttori/producers Antoine Barraud, Vincent Wang, Stephen Dwoskin produzione/production House on Fire
vendita all’estero/world sales Independencia Distribution
fotografia/cinematography Rachel Bénitah, Stephen Dwoskin, Véronique Goël montaggio/film editing Stephen Dwoskin, Tatia Shaburishvili
musica/music Alexander Balanescu
suono/sound Philippe Ciompi
interpreti/cast Antoine Barraud, Gilles Benardeau, Françoise Bridel, Tonino De Bernardi, Mary Dickinson, Michele Fuirer, Rachel Garfield, Samantha Granger, Alexis Kavershine, Anthéa Kennedy, S. Louis, Valérie Massadian, Mel Massadian, Leo Mingrone, Arnold Schmidt, Tatia Shaburishvili, Ian Wiblin
produttori/producers Antoine Barraud, Vincent Wang, Stephen Dwoskin produzione/production House on Fire
vendita all’estero/world sales Independencia Distribution
