Director: Stephen Dwoskin
Year: 1972
Country: UK
Language(s): English
Subtitles: French | Dutch | Italian | Spanish
Length: 120 mins
Format: PAL | R0
Colour: Colour
Aspect Ratio: 1.33: 1
Certificate: E
Alternate Title: Dynamo
Synopsis
"lt's formative and necessary and a part of things to know about the tenderness, vulgarity, violence and selflessness that we're capable of at any one moment and in any one emotional sexual involvement. Dyn Amo is a film about all this, taking as its setting a strip-club, and as its subjects a series of strippers and their admirers.'"
Ros Spain
"Each of Dwoskin's films could be thus described: a man gazes at a woman who returns his gaze. This arm-wrestling match lasts as long as necessary; sometimes it's as soft as a caress, other times as intense as a demand. At times, fear, rejection, wounded pride, abandonment permeate this tense cinema, paralyzed by the camera gaze. As in a peep show, his films are watched in complete isolation. They speak to the solitude of us all."
Philippe Azoury
"Free and intimate, sensual and cerebral, experimental and political, Dwoskin's cinema is heir to the surrealists and Georges Bataille, to Andy Warhol and Jack Smith."
Isabelle Regnier
Special Features
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Memories of Dyn Amo (Pip Chodorov, Gloria Morano, 2006, 18 mins)
- 36-page booklet about the film by Jaqueline Holt
