Vivienne Dick is an
Irish experimental and
documentary filmmaker.
She was born in
Dublin but moved to the
United States in the 1970s. In the U.S., Dick became active in
No Wave film culture and produced a series of
Super8 short films. Many of her films were staged around well-known
New York City sites such as
Coney Island, the
Statue of Liberty, and the
World Trade Center. The films featured
punk performers such as
Lydia Lunch, Pat Place (of the band
Bush Tetras) and Adele Bertei (of
The Contortions). Film critic and author
J. Hoberman has called Dick the "quintessential No Wave filmmaker"."A context for Vivienne Dick,"
October, no. 20, Spring 1982, pp. 102–106
In 1982 Dick moved to Ireland, and then to London where she continued making films.
Dick's work formed part of two major retrospectives of American
avant garde film:
No Wave Cinema 1978-87 (1996) at the
Whitney Museum, New York and
Big as Life: An American History of Super8 Film (1999) at the
Museum of Modern Art, New York.Dick currently teaches filmmaking at
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology. Dick is making a documentary on underground Irish bands. She is also planning another feminist classic, "I Ain't Feelin' It."
She is referenced by the feminist dance-punk group,
Le Tigre, in their song "
Hot Topic."
Exhibitions
Vivienne's work featured in the
Tate Modern,
London from Friday 10 September – Tuesday 14 September...
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