Stephen Dwoskin - Ha, ha : la solution imaginaire - 1993

Original edition in very good condition. Numerous full-page black-and-white photos.

Stephen Dwoskin (1939-2012) is an American filmmaker. He can be presented as the disabled avant-garde director of the intimate, one of the most original talents in modern cinema.
Dwoskin's work focuses on desire, facial expressions, and sharing. His films, for the most part, are based on the interaction between the filmmaker and his subject. His cinema is clearly tied to his self-shot sexuality as a disabled filmmaker. The filmmaker, using an unsparing, entomologist-like gaze on his subject-cobayes, attempts to pierce appearances, to lay bare his subjects in order to reveal their flaws, their true personality, beneath the mask.

Excerpt from {Ha,Ha !, The Imaginary Solution}, by Stephen Dwoskin:
This is a story of shattered memory. Of a memory exhumed, reconstructed, and finally torn apart. Repaired, with fragments of the past and the present. The story of a memory that failed, that faded away, and that is then reassembled with imaginary improvements prompted by the present. It is also a memory that was turned over and mixed; that time's passage distorted and that fantasy rebuilt.
This story is dedicated to the memory of Alfred Jarry, who developed the concept of “imaginary solutions” — or the Pataphysical system (a word which originally was written ‘pataphysical’, with an apostrophe, to avoid the easy French pun that would have yielded “paw to physics”). The system became, essentially, one of the main levers of Surrealism. Jarry had declared that Pataphysics is the science of what over-determines metaphysics, whether in the limitations inherent to it or in those external to it, a science whose scope overflows its own subject, metaphysics, as much as metaphysics overflows physics. In the end, all he can say is “Ha, Ha!”, as if he intended to say something else… but forgot what.

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