Trying to Kiss the Moon

Name: Trying to Kiss the Moon
Rating: 7.2

Not Rated Documentary

Starring: Astley Harvey

Writer: N/A

Release Date:
August 11, 1994

Ratings:
7.2 / 10

Director:
Stephen Dwoskin

Companies:
N/A

Overview

In this unique approach to the autobiographical film format, director Stephen Dwoskin pieces together home movies shot by his parents in New York City, a video letter recorded during the 1990 Gulf War by filmmaker Robert Kramer, and raw footage filmed by Dwoskin himself. A veteran of the New York independent film scene of the 1960s, Dwoskin constructs a film poem in which the strong sentiment of his personal story—he was stricken by polio and eventually confined to a wheelchair—never overwhelms the beauty of the film’s distinct form.

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