Sunday 12 September 2010, 17.00

Introduced by Maeve Connolly.

London Suite: Getting Sucked In
Vivienne Dick, 1989, 16mm, 28 min

An exploration of migrant and ex-pat identity, featuring Irish and other nationalities living in London during the late 1980s. The film intersperses interviews and performed set-up scenes improvised by friends of the filmmaker. They discuss job-hunting, rent, the difficulty of making friends and relationships. They are shown as a diverse group from various cultures who are supportive of each other through their shared sense of making place.

To Be Two
Vivienne Dick, 1999, Hi-8 / DVD, 4.5 min 

This is a film about motherhood and the extended moments of watching and minding. The film was shot inside and looking out from an 18th floor apartment in London, where the artist lived in the 1990s.

Two Pigeons
Vivienne Dick, 1990, Super-8 / DVD, 4 min

This short dream-like film is a homage to Jack Smith and  juxtaposes two worlds: one a civilised, manicured London park; and the other a ruined world of overgrown wilderness and dynamited buildings, where a strange couple live an absurd domestic idyll.

A Skinny Little Man Attacked Daddy
Vivienne Dick, 1994, DVD, 28 min

A very personal film, Dick uses the family portrait to continue her exploration of identity from the inside. The gradual dilapidation of the family home acts as a metaphor for decay and change while the unself-conscious documentation of a sibling's children at play is a reminder of the filmmaker's own childhood and of her place in the cycle of life. This lyrical documentary merges social documentary and home movie aesthetics and, as is implicit in the title, is always mindful of the power of unconscious processes, which shape our individual perceptions of various histories.

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

  

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