Trixi

Trixi is Dwoskins most convulsive version of his recurrent theme the confrontation of a solitary girl with the camera Shot in one continuous 8hour session Trixi records Beatrice Corduas responses to the situation from initial shyness fear and withdrawal through teasing and posturing to naked surrender and final exhaustion The camera is highly mobile often confronting the girl in extreme closeups sometimes swooping down from overhead sometimes searching to recapture her The camera itself is the object of erotic desire in the sense of giving a performance shifting imperceptibly in a helpless selfexposure in response to its constant stare Clearly the form of the film was dictated by the response of the performer Beatrice Cordua proves Dwoskins most expressive subject to date and the film is correspondingly open the camera having been willing to choose its tactics as direct responses