Outside In

Director: Stephen Dwoskin

1981 / 115min / DCP

At the center of Dwoskin’s autofiction eighth feature, shot in his London home, is a frank, confessional look at the lifelong repercussions of the filmmakers’ bout with polio at age nine, particularly as concerns his physical, sexual, and emotional health. A diary film without dialogue, finding rich visual metaphors for the point of view from which the disabled person sees, and is seen by, able-bodied society. Taboo-busting, disarmingly funny, and, in the words of the great critic Raymond Durgnat, a film notable for its “abrupt switches between documentary interest and fiction, jokiness and lyricism, slapstick and sadness.”

Presented with an introduction from Rachel Garfield and Henry Miller, editors Dwoskino: The Gaze of Stephen Dwoskin.