The Sun and the Moon + Trixi

Director: Stephen Dwoskin

1969 / 86min / DCP

“In The Sun and the Moon, a man, abject and monstrous, a young woman and another more ambivalent figure: a woman, the bridge between the former extremes, are caught in their own isolation, fearful of each other. Juxtaposing the interior with natural form, the sublime and the abject, I wanted to forge spartan and yet richly dramatic imagery into a narrative of a well-known fairytale. The film, as a personal interpretation of Beauty and the Beast, enciphers concerns, beliefs and desires in seductive images that are themselves a form of camouflage, making it possible to utter harsh truth.”—Stephen Dwoskin. Screens with Trixi, Dwoskin’s distillation of a 8-hour confrontation between actress Beatrice Cordua and an unblinking camera.

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