LUX Event: Steve Dwoskin's DYN AMO : Birkbeck Cinema - 22 May 2008

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Thursday 22 May 2008, at 7:30pm
DYN AMO

A film by Steve Dwoskin


Steve Dwoskin's DYN AMO is a visually rich and emotionally intense  
film set in a Soho strip-joint. Following the routines of four  
strippers as they divest themselves of their stage gear, the film  
pivots around a central scene that articulates a brutal desire. This  
film, along with other works by Dwoskin, prompted academic Paul  
Willemen to write the article 'Voyeurism, The Look and  
Dwoskin' (publ.  After Image 6, 1976) which responded to Laura  
Mulvey’s theory of three ‘looks’ and suggested a fourth: ’… 
the look at the viewer must be added…’

DYN AMO
UK, 1972, sound, colour, 120 mins, 16mm
  ‘…Dynamo marks something of a depature for Dwoskin in that it is  
based on a stage play (by Chris Wilkinson). The action takes place in  
a strip club, and begins with a realistic treatment of a stripper  
going through her routine - complete with the dead moments between  
records that leave both the performer and the audience feeling a  
little ridiculous. Two more strippers perform, but the Pop music on  
the soundtrack is replaced by Gavin Bryars' surrealistic score, and  
the routines become increasingly fantasised. Is it the strippers'  
fantasy we are watching? Or the audience's? Or the fllmmakers?...’  
Clive Hodgson, Oz magazine, November 1972.

This special screening is presented by LUX and Re:Voir, Paris, to  
mark the launch of the DVD of Steve Dwoskin's seminal 1972 film Dyn  
Amo. Following the film director Steve Dwoskin, lead actor Linda  
Marlowe and the film's producer, Maggie Pinhorn of Alternative Arts  
will be in discussion.

Birkbeck Cinema, Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD www.birkbeckcinema.com
Admission free, booking essential email salon at lux.org.uk

The DVD of Dyn Amo is published by Re:Voir, Paris in collaboration  
with LUX, as well as the film the DVD includes an essay by Jacqueline  
Holt and a filmed interview with Steve Dwoskin and Maggie Pinhorn.  
AVAILABLE ON THE NIGHT or from LUX SHOP www.lux.org.uk/shop/video.htm








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