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Vivienne Dick

Vivienne Dick

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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Movies Made By Vivienne Dick (12)

Confessions to the Mirror (2016)

A sumptuous and passionate reimagining of Claude Cahun's life. ...

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Red Moon Rising (2015)

Sumptuous nature is artificially created from the female imagination as if the Garden of Eden was made for the pleasure of women only. The female inhabitants perform to a soundtrack that is radically classical or vice-versa. ...

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A Skinny Little Man Attacked Daddy (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. So much of what is 'me' comes from attitudes, expectations, fears, habit ...

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New York Conversations (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. Frequently funny, often life affirming, sometimes bizarre insights into the lives of the real 'thirtys ...

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London Suite (Getting Sucked In) (1990)

London's cultural diversity unfolds as Vivienne Dick portrays her friends, their lifestyles, what they talk about and how they talk. In this kaleidoscopic arrangement of encounters and re-enactments, equal weight is given to the passionate and the banal. ...

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Like Dawn to Dust (1983)

Lydia Lunch laments the difficulty of relationships in the wilds of Connemara, Ireland. ...

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Visibility: Moderate (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. The narrative follows Margaret An ...

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Liberty's Booty (1980)

Liberty's Booty is an investigation into prositution from a female perspective under a late capitalist economy. The film is also a document and a celebration of a New York subculture in the late seventies. With a dense mix of real testimonies, verité foot ...

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Beauty Becomes the Beast (1979)

Beauty Becomes the Beast describes a random access world mediated by TV images and shards of popular culture. The film features a powerful performance by Lydia Lunch regressing from adulthood to childhood, hinting at a sexually abusive past. It concerns it ...

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Staten Island (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. ...

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She Had Her Gun All Ready (1978)

Two women – one passive and resigned, the other aggressive and domineering – interact in various locations in New York city. The film explores the dynamic between them before ending with a showdown at the roller-coaster on Coney Island. ...

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Guerillere Talks (1978)

This experimental short consists of eight unedited rolls of super-8 film, each of which profiles an individual woman in real time. The women engage in everyday behaviour, such as playing pinball or reading a letter aloud. ...

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Movies Starring Vivienne Dick (5)

Blank City (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 ...

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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (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. ...

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Empty Suitcases (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. ...

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Letters to Dad (1979)

The almost lyrical Letters to Dad, is a meditation on authority that superimposes the spectre of Jonestown over the relatively fresh faces of the parapunk art world; the film takes on a musical form - like a 20th-century ballad composed of subliminal behav ...

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Guerillere Talks (1978)

This experimental short consists of eight unedited rolls of super-8 film, each of which profiles an individual woman in real time. The women engage in everyday behaviour, such as playing pinball or reading a letter aloud. ...

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