Tuesday 14 September 2010, 18.30

I have selected the films in Programmes Two and Six to reflect my ongoing interest in the fragility and temporality of our existence, and in sexual difference as a philosophical and political issue. (Vivienne Dick)

Letters To Dad
Scott B and Beth B, 1979, 15 min

This meditation on authority features artists and musicians from the late 1970s in New York reading extracts from letters written by followers of Jim Jones.

Backcomb
Sarah Pucill, 1995, 6 min

Echoing the violence of Waiting for the Wind in Programme Two, Sarah Pucill’s Backcomb unleashes disruptive and uncontrollable forces on domestic space.

Here Lies
Olwen Fouéré, 2005, 12 min

In Here Lies, Olwen Fouéré plays Antonin Artaud, following his extraordinary journey to the Aran Islands and Galway in 1937, when he was arrested in Dublin for causing a disturbance and subsequently was deported back to France and nine years of psychiatric incarceration.

Sigmund Freud's Dore: A Case Of Mistaken Identity
Anthony McCall, Claire Pajaczkowska, Andrew Tyndall, Ivan Ward and Jane Weinstock (Jay Street Film Project), 1979, 40 min

A feminist critique and re-reading of Freud’s first published case history, 'Fragment of an Analysis'.

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

  

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