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Adam Kossoff

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Adam Kossoff is a British filmmaker and artist.

Early life and education

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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 with the dissertation "On Terra Firma: Space, Place and the Moving Image", by the Royal College of Art.[1]

Career

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Kossoff began his career working as a playwright, with plays performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Soho Theatre and at Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Kossoff then worked in the film and TV industry for a number of years, writing and directing documentaries and drama films.[2] 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 (1989),[3] about Anglo-Soviet relations and home front propaganda during World War II, and Turbulence (1992), starring Kelly Marcel and Cathy Tyson, that looked at the issue of family sexual abuse.

From 2004-2021, Kossoff was a reader in film in the School of Art at the University of Wolverhampton.[4] He has written for various journals[5][6] and edited books, mainly focusing on issues of praxis and technics in the work of Walter Benjamin and Bernard Stiegler.[7]

Kossoff has made experimental and essayistic films that have been screened at galleries and international film festivals:

Selected filmography

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  • 2024 Walking Backwards
  • 2022 Downstream[14]
  • 2022 Jackals and Arabs[15]
  • 2020 In The Loop of History[16]
  • 2019 Through The Bloody Mists Of Time[17]
  • 2017 One Or The Other
  • 2015 The Anarchist Rabbi[18]
  • 2015 How They Hate Us
  • 2014 Animal Architecture[19]
  • 2011 Made In Wolverhampton[20]
  • 2011 Moscow Diary[21]

References

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  1. ^ Mazier, Michael (8 December 2008). [file:///Users/kasia/Desktop/AVPHD_LRG_PRINT%5b1%5d.pdf "Viva"] (PDF). Viva Viva. Retrieved 13 August 2024. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  2. ^ Kossoff, Adam (23 July 2024). "FEINART". The Future of European Independent Art Spaces In A Period of Socially Engaged Art. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  3. ^ British Film Institute, BFI (13 August 2024). "Collections British Film Institute". Collections Search BFI. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  4. ^ Kossoff, Adam (23 July 2024). "FEINART". The Future of Independent Art Spaces In a Period of Socially Engaged Art. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  5. ^ Kossoff, Adam. "Spatial location and the relative thinness of the image". Journal of Media Practice. 9 (3): 257–269 – via Taylor and Francis Online.
  6. ^ Kossoff, Adam (11 January 2011). "RUING THE RUINS". Mute. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  7. ^ Kossoff, Adam (23 July 2024). "The Mobile Phone and the Flow of Things". SpringerLink. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  8. ^ Prouty, Richard (24 May 2012). "Moscow Diary Redux". One Way Street Aesthetics and Politics. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  9. ^ Wilson, Mark (14 March 2012). "Mmm, maps: filming locations and locations of films". Still Walking. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  10. ^ Kinna, Ruth (November 2014). "The Anarchist Rabbi". ProQuest. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  11. ^ Sandhu, Sukhdev (October 2014). "Sight & Sound: the November 2014 issue". BFI. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  12. ^ Porton, Richard (2020). Film and the Anarchist Imagination (2nd ed.). University of Illinois Press. pp. 240–241. ISBN 978-0252085246.
  13. ^ Taylor, Meredith (17 April 2018). "One or the Other (2017) | East End Film Festival 2018". Filmforia. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  14. ^ "ICA | Shorts Programme: Thinking Around and Outside". www.ica.art.
  15. ^ Kossoff, Adam (23 July 2024). "Jackals and Arabs (by Franz Kafka)". Vimeo. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  16. ^ "In The Loop of History on Vimeo".
  17. ^ "Walter Benjamin and Humphrey Jennings: Through the Bloody Mists of Time".
  18. ^ "The Anarchist Rabbi excerpt on Vimeo".
  19. ^ "Animal Architecture by Adam Kossoff". wolverhamptonart.org.uk.
  20. ^ "Mmm, maps: filming locations and locations of films". Still Walking. March 14, 2012.
  21. ^ "MOSCOW DIARY – FIDMarseille".
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