Adam Kossoff is a British filmmaker and artist.
Early life and education
editDr. Adam Kossoff was born in London. He gained a degree in film and photography at the Polytechnic of Central London (now University of Westminster) in 1980. In 2008 he was awarded his PhD, 'On Terra Firma: Space, Place and the Moving Image', by the Royal College of Art.[citation needed]
Career
editKossoff began his career working as a playwright, with plays performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Soho Theatre and at Edinburgh Festival Fringe.[citation needed]
Kossoff then worked in the film and TV industry for a number of years, writing and directing documentaries and drama films.[citation needed] He made several films for Channel 4 including East Enders Against the Grain (1988), on the representation of the East End of London in film, Arm in Arm Together (1990), about Anglo-Soviet relations and home front propaganda during World War 11, and Turbulence (1992), starring Kelly Marcel and Cathy Tyson, one of the first television dramas to look at the issue of family sexual abuse.[citation needed]
From 2004-2021, Kossoff was a Reader in Film in the School of Art at the University of Wolverhampton.[citation needed] He has written for various journals[which?] and edited books, mainly focusing on issues of praxis and technics in the work of Walter Benjamin and Bernard Stiegler.[citation needed]
Kossoff has made experimental and essayistic films that have been screened at galleries and international film festivals:
- Moscow Diary (2012), filmed on a mobile phone, retraced the footsteps of Walter Benjamin's 1926-27 Moscow Diary.[1]
- Made in Wolverhampton (2012), narrated by Sean Foley, it explored the melancholic identity and the changing nature of place and space in an English post-industrial city.[2]
- The Anarchist Rabbi (2015), narrated by Steven Berkoff, focused on the East End haunts of German-born anarchist Rudolf Rocker.[3][4]
- One Or The Other (2017), an essay film looking issues around the homeland and the nation state in Israel and Palestine.[5]
- Through the Bloody Mists Of Time (2020), narrated by Esther Leslie, uses a slowed down 9.5 mm film film of the 1937 Paris Exhibition featuring an imaginary voice-over dialogue between Walter Benjamin and Humphrey Jennings.
- In The Loop of History (2020), an archival essay, is concerned with nationhood and history as myth in Israel-Palestine.
Selected filmography
editReferences
edit- ^ Prouty, Richard (24 May 2012). "Moscow Diary Redux". One Way Street Aesthetics and Politics. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
- ^ Wilson, Mark (14 March 2012). "Mmm, maps: filming locations and locations of films". Still Walking. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
- ^ Kinna, Ruth (November 2014). "The Anarchist Rabbi". ProQuest. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
- ^ Sandhu, Sukhdev (October 2014). "Sight & Sound: the November 2014 issue". BFI. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
- ^ Taylor, Meredith (17 April 2018). "One or the Other (2017) | East End Film Festival 2018". Filmforia. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
- ^ "ICA | Shorts Programme: Thinking Around and Outside". www.ica.art.
- ^ "In The Loop of History on Vimeo".
- ^ "Walter Benjamin and Humphrey Jennings: Through the Bloody Mists of Time".
- ^ "The Anarchist Rabbi excerpt on Vimeo".
- ^ "Animal Architecture by Adam Kossoff". wolverhamptonart.org.uk.
- ^ "Mmm, maps: filming locations and locations of films". Still Walking. March 14, 2012.
- ^ "MOSCOW DIARY – FIDMarseille".