Vivienne Dick Movies

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

Liberty’s Booty is an investigation into prositution from a female perspective under a late capitalist economy. The film is also a document and...

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...

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.

a short film

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...

'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...

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...

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

London’s cultural diversity unfolds as Vivienne Dick portrays her friends, their lifestyles, what they talk about and how they talk. In this...

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...