Stephen Dwoskin’s Face of Our Fear (1992): Reflections on Disability in Film with Rachel Garfield

Film Screening | Stephen Dwoskin’s Face of Our Fear (1992): Reflections on Disability in Film with Rachel Garfield

The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts 1 Washington Place NY 10003

Starting in the mid-1960s, Stephen Dwoskin, a UK-based experimental filmmaker who survived childhood poliomyelitis, developed a distinct audio-visual style rooted in the specific conditions of (im-)mobility that permeate his cinematography. Simultaneously, he was strongly preoccupied with the ways narrative cinema uses disability as a symbolic or iconic component. In his essay film Face of our Fear (1991), Dwoskin discusses the long history of disability mis-representation in Western art and media, highlighting the shifting meaning of disability across centuries of evolving cultural traditions.

This event features a screening of Dwoskin’s Face of our Fear (52 minutes), followed by a discussion and Q&A with Professor Rachel Garfield—a film scholar, artist, and close friend and collaborator of the late Stephen Dwoskin. Open captions and CART provided; audio description available upon request.

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This event is programmed by Gallatin School of Individualized Study and is co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Disability Studies and the NYU Center for Media, Culture and History. Please visit the event’s website for more information on how materials such as images and audio taken at the event may be reproduced.