Short movies by Vivienne Dick (I)

The first compilation of short films by Vivienne Dick combines three works directed between the late 1980s and the early 1990s, reflecting the filmmaker’s return to the UK and Ireland: Images Ireland (1988), Two Little Pigeons (1990) and London Suite (1990). 

Two Little Pigeons (UK, 1990, 4’38’’, HD Video from Super-8 Film)

This short dream-like film contrasts two worlds, the civilised ambiance of a London park with people reading, feeding ducks, sunbathing, etc, and the other a ruined world of overgrown wilderness and partially dynamited buildings, where an couple are having  tea in an bizarre domestic idyll.   

London Suite (UK, 1990, 28’, Colour, HD Video from 16mm)

London’s cultural diversity unfolds as Vivienne Dick portrays her friends, their lifestyles, what they talk about and how they talk. In this kaleidoscopic arrangement of encounters and re-enactments, equal weight is given to the passionate and the banal.

Images Ireland (IE, 1988, Colour, HD Video from Super-8 Film)

Ireland in the early 80s. The fragments of rural and urban life blend document with fiction showing a teenager in love, a riot outside the British Embassy, a picket at Mountjoy prison, dinnertime in Cork with Nell McCafferty on the radio. Soundtrack by Steve Nieve.