Vivienne Dick: No Wave Films
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
162 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, February 3rd, at 6PM
One of the most important filmmakers to emerge from New York’s seething No Wave scene, and currently enjoying a resurgence of interest in her work, Ireland-born Vivienne Dick created a series of Super-8 films in the late 1970s that balance stripped-down narratives with visceral and moody performances by artists and musicians like Lydia Lunch, Pat Place, Adele Bertei, and Ikue Mori. Writes Ed Halter in Artforum, “Obsessed with exhuming repressed traumas, voicing beaten-down identities, and generally meandering through a complex matrix of bad vibes, Dick’s works …are unapologetically messy, subjective, and political—thereby proposing that so, too, is life.” This evening’s program features a collection of her No Wave films, including the small-gauge masterpieces, She Had Her Gun Already (1978) and Beauty Becomes the Beast(1979), among others.
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