Sunday 12 September 2010, 15.00

Rothach
Vivienne Dick, 1985, 16mm, 8 min

Images of rural Ireland are juxtaposed with the lunar landscape of the Burren. The sense of unease is reinforced by a dissonant soundtrack composed by Martin Shellar and a female voice reciting An Roithleán by Seán Ó Riordáin, a poem that the filmmaker cites as being about a 'dream of being in space and the fear of not returning'.

Like Dawn To Dust
Vivienne Dick, 1983, Super-8 / DVD, 6 min

A gothic Lydia Lunch plays herself in this short lyrical film, shot mostly in Connemara. Text and music by Lydia Lunch.

Images Ireland
Vivienne Dick, 1988, Super-8 / DVD, 9 min

A companion piece to Visibility: Moderate, this film is a selection of montaged sequences comprising documentary and staged footage shot in Ireland in the early 1980s—a portrait piece of Ireland at a certain moment in history.

Visibility: Moderate
Vivienne Dick, 1981, Super-8 / DVD, 45 min

The artist chronicles her own return to Ireland in the early 1980s through the proxy of an American tourist who we see at the beginning of the film on an empty floor of the World Trade Center, who then abruptly reappears perched on top of a portal Dolmen in the middle of an Irish bog. The film, initially a parody of a travelogue, changes mood when we are introduced via the protagonist to an alternative Ireland of poverty, police repression and political protest, as well a nascent indigenous music scene.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended

  

This event is related to the Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera exhibition