# Adam Kossoff

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{{Short description|British filmmaker and artist}}
'''Adam Kossoff''' is a British filmmaker and artist.

== Early life and education ==
Kossoff was born in London. He gained a degree in film and photography at the Polytechnic of Central London (now [University of Westminster](/source/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](/source/Royal_College_of_Art).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mazier |first=Michael |date=8 December 2008 |title=Viva |url=file:///Users/kasia/Desktop/AVPHD_LRG_PRINT[1].pdf |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=13 August 2024 |website=Viva Viva}}</ref>

== Career ==
Kossoff began his career working as a playwright, with plays performed by the [Royal Shakespeare Company](/source/Royal_Shakespeare_Company), [Soho Theatre](/source/Soho_Theatre) and at [Edinburgh Festival Fringe](/source/Edinburgh_Festival_Fringe).

Kossoff then worked in the film and TV industry for a number of years, writing and directing documentaries and drama films.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kossoff |first=Adam |date=23 July 2024 |title=FEINART |url=https://feinart.org/dr-adam-kossoff/ |access-date=23 July 2024 |website=The Future of European Independent Art Spaces In A Period of Socially Engaged Art}}</ref> He made several films for [Channel 4](/source/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),<ref>{{Cite web |last=British Film Institute |first=BFI |date=13 August 2024 |title=Collections British Film Institute |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150352125 |access-date=13 August 2024 |website=Collections Search BFI}}</ref> about [Anglo-Soviet relations](/source/Anglo-Soviet_relations) and home front propaganda during World War II, and ''Turbulence'' (1992), starring [Kelly Marcel](/source/Kelly_Marcel) and [Cathy Tyson](/source/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](/source/University_of_Wolverhampton).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kossoff |first=Adam |date=23 July 2024 |title=FEINART |url=https://feinart.org/dr-adam-kossoff/ |access-date=23 July 2024 |website=The Future of Independent Art Spaces In a Period of Socially Engaged Art}}</ref> He has written for various journals<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kossoff |first=Adam |title=Spatial location and the relative thinness of the image |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1386/jmpr.9.3.257_1 |journal=Journal of Media Practice |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=257–269 |via=Taylor and Francis Online}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kossoff |first=Adam |date=11 January 2011 |title=RUING THE RUINS |url=https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/ruing-ruins |access-date=23 July 2024 |website=Mute}}</ref> and edited books, mainly focusing on issues of praxis and technics in the work of [Walter Benjamin](/source/Walter_Benjamin) and [Bernard Stiegler](/source/Bernard_Stiegler).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kossoff |first=Adam |date=23 July 2024 |title=The Mobile Phone and the Flow of Things |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137469816_4 |access-date=23 July 2024 |website=SpringerLink}}</ref>

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](/source/Moscow_Diary)''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Prouty |first=Richard |date=24 May 2012 |title=Moscow Diary Redux |url=https://onewaystreet.typepad.com/one_way_street/2012/05/moscow-diary-redux.html |access-date=4 July 2024 |website=One Way Street Aesthetics and Politics}}</ref>
* ''Made in Wolverhampton'' (2012), narrated by [Sean Foley](/source/Sean_Foley_(director)), it explored the melancholic identity and the changing nature of place and space in an English post-industrial city.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wilson |first=Mark |date=14 March 2012 |title=Mmm, maps: filming locations and locations of films |url=https://www.stillwalking.org/blog/2018/8/24/9hlqygmsvny5er8vfc54qgewnj3ygz |access-date=4 July 2024 |website=Still Walking}}</ref>
* ''The Anarchist Rabbi'' (2015), narrated by [Steven Berkoff](/source/Steven_Berkoff), focused on the East End haunts of German-born anarchist [Rudolf Rocker](/source/Rudolf_Rocker).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kinna |first=Ruth |date=November 2014 |title=The Anarchist Rabbi |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1635249133?sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals |access-date=4 July 2024 |website=ProQuest}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sandhu |first=Sukhdev |date=October 2014 |title=Sight & Sound: the November 2014 issue |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/november-2014-issue |access-date=4 July 2024 |website=BFI}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Porton |first=Richard |title=Film and the Anarchist Imagination |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=2020 |isbn=978-0252085246 |edition=2nd |pages=240–241 |language=English}}</ref>
* ''One Or the Other'' (2017), an essay film looking issues around the [homeland](/source/homeland) and the [nation state](/source/nation_state) in [Israel](/source/Israel) and [Palestine](/source/Palestine).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Taylor |first=Meredith |date=17 April 2018 |title=One or the Other (2017) {{!}} East End Film Festival 2018 |url=https://filmuforia.com/one-or-the-other/ |access-date=4 July 2024 |website=Filmforia}}</ref>
* ''Through the Bloody Mists of Time'' (2020), narrated by [Esther Leslie](/source/Esther_Leslie), uses a slowed down [9.5 mm film](/source/9.5_mm_film) film of the [1937 Paris Exhibition](/source/1937_Paris_Exhibition) featuring an imaginary voice-over dialogue between Walter Benjamin and [Humphrey Jennings](/source/Humphrey_Jennings).
* ''[Jackals and Arabs](/source/Jackals_and_Arabs)'' (by Franz Kafka) (2022) narrated by [Mohammad Bakri](/source/Mohammad_Bakri). 
* ''In The Loop of History'' (2020), an archival essay, is concerned with nationhood and history as myth in Israel-Palestine.

== Selected filmography ==
* 2024 ''Walking Backwards''
* 2022 ''Downstream''<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.ica.art/films/shorts-thinking-around-and-outside |title=ICA &#124; Shorts Programme: Thinking Around and Outside|website=www.ica.art}}</ref>
* 2022 Jackals and Arabs<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kossoff |first=Adam |date=23 July 2024 |title=Jackals and Arabs (by Franz Kafka) |url=https://vimeo.com/788238117 |access-date=23 July 2024 |website=Vimeo}}</ref> 
* 2020 ''In The Loop of History''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/408787775|title=In The Loop of History on Vimeo}}</ref>
* 2019 ''Through The Bloody Mists Of Time''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/through-the-bloody-mists-of-time/|title=Walter Benjamin and Humphrey Jennings: Through the Bloody Mists of Time}}</ref>
* 2017 ''One Or The Other''
* 2015 ''The Anarchist Rabbi''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/245762198|title=The Anarchist Rabbi excerpt on Vimeo}}</ref>
* 2015 ''How They Hate Us''
* 2014 ''Animal Architecture''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/whats-on/animal-architecture-adam-kossoff/|title=Animal Architecture by Adam Kossoff|website=wolverhamptonart.org.uk}}</ref>
* 2011 ''Made In Wolverhampton''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stillwalking.org/blog/2018/8/24/9hlqygmsvny5er8vfc54qgewnj3ygz|title=Mmm, maps: filming locations and locations of films|date=March 14, 2012|website=Still Walking}}</ref>
* 2011 ''Moscow Diary''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fidmarseille.org/film/moscow-diary/|title=MOSCOW DIARY – FIDMarseille}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZvWVUm1w_k&t=106s Video discussion - Adam Kossoff and Esther Leslie Walter Benjamin and Humphrey Jennings: Through the Bloody Mists of Time]
* [https://vimeo.com/adamkossoff Vimeo - Adam Kossoff home page]
* [https://vimeo.com/360749659 Vimeo Trailer - Through the Bloody Mists Of Time (2020)]
* [https://lux.org.uk/adam-kossoff-trilogy-dvd/ DVDs Trilogy]

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