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Vivienne Dick is an Irish feminist experimental and documentary filmmaker. Her 2014 fllm, The Irreducible Difference of the Other, acknowledges her longstanding interest in Luce Irigaray. Her early films helped define the No Wave scene.
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01 January 1980
Bette Gordon describes her first feature film as “a narrative derived from film’s own material and my concern for exploring issues of representation and identification in cinema.
02 January 1979
Beauty Becomes the Beast describes a random access world mediated by TV images and shards of popular culture.
01 January 1981
Vivienne Dick's first film after the New York series takes her back to her native Ireland. Using Super-8 film as a parody of the 'travelogue' or home-movie style film, Dick takes a expatriate, tourist look at her homeland.
01 January 1990
Produced over the Christmas of 1990, New York Conversations explores the lives, fears and work of six New Yorkers in a series of video verite interviews.
15 April 1980
Liberty’s Booty is an investigation into prositution from a female perspective under a late capitalist economy.
06 April 2011
In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best works.
02 March 2020
New York Our Time is an ethnographic look from the inside at a particular community and period in the history of a great city, and a meditation on the passing of time.
01 January 2004
The shoreline at Salthill, Galway on a summer's day, followed by the sounds and lights of a fairground ride at night to music by Arovane.
13 March 1985
Nan Goldin's slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” converted, mixed and screened as a film by the artist, portraying the American underground culture, the no wave scene, post-Stonewall gay subculture, among others.
01 January 2013
"This experimental film embodies an implicit critique of the male paradigm where the fetishisation of property and privilege has resulted in a global ethical deficit.
01 January 1979
The almost lyrical Letters to Dad, is a meditation on authority that superimposes the spectre of Jonr
01 January 2016
A short film about a domestic cat which also comments on homo sapiens, the most predatory and destructive animal on earth.
01 May 1978
Pat Place plays a creature who lives in an old abandoned barge on a rubbish strewn beach. The mood is post-apocalyptic and the music of Telstar mixed with domestic kitchen clatter.
01 July 2017
Augenblick reflects on what it means to be human in a post-human world. Moving from The Age of Enlightenment into a digital world, what becomes of out relationship to each other and to the earth?
01 January 1983
Lydia Lunch laments the difficulty of relationships in the wilds of Connemara, Ireland.
01 January 1978
This experimental short consists of eight unedited rolls of super-8 film, each of which profiles an individual woman in real time.
01 October 2015
Sumptuous nature is artificially created from the female imagination as if the Garden of Eden was made for the pleasure of women only.
01 January 1990
London’s cultural diversity unfolds as Vivienne Dick portrays her friends, their lifestyles, what they talk about and how they talk.
09 October 2016
A sumptuous and passionate reimagining of Claude Cahun's life.
01 January 1978
Two women – one passive and resigned, the other aggressive and domineering – interact in various locations in New York city.
01 January 1990
Paying homage to her experimental contemporary Jack Smith, Vivienne Dick juxtaposes two quite different London landscapes.
01 January 1994
'The films I make are about my life and the people around me. I want to awaken the fearless self. A Skinny Man Attacked Daddy takes a look at the family and the place where I grew up.
01 January 1988
A kaleidoscopic film depicting Ireland in the early 80s. These fragments of rural and urban life blend document with fiction showing a teenager in love, a riot outside the British Embassy, a picket at Mountjoy prison, dinnertime in Cork with Nell McCafferty on the radio.
