Vivienne Dick Movies

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...

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...

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...

Bette Gordon describes her first feature film as “a narrative derived from film’s own material and my concern for exploring issues of...

Nan Goldin's slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” converted, mixed and screened as a film by the artist, portraying the American...

"This experimental film embodies an implicit critique of the male paradigm where the fetishisation of property and privilege has resulted in a global...

Beauty Becomes the Beast describes a random access world mediated by TV images and shards of popular culture. The film features a powerful...

The almost lyrical Letters to Dad, is a meditation on authority that superimposes the spectre of Jonestown over the relatively fresh faces of the...

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

Two women – one passive and resigned, the other aggressive and domineering – interact in various locations in New York city. The film...

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 short film

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. V.D.

'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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A short film about a domestic cat which also comments on homo sapiens, the most predatory and destructive animal on earth.

Paying homage to her experimental contemporary Jack Smith, Vivienne Dick juxtaposes two quite different London landscapes.