[Frameworks] TONIGHT 2/13 - Vivienne Dick's "Liberty's Booty), Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn

[LBurchill]

Tonight Microscope presents a rare screening of Vivienne Dick’s 1980 film
"Liberty’s Booty" in which the Irish born filmmaker and seminal figure in
New York’s “No Wave” scene, takes an unabashed look at middle-class white
prostitution through casual interviews in cinéma vérité with women talking
about their life as call-girls.

“Dick’s most disturbing film, Liberty’s Booty purposefully blurs the
distinction between spectacle and document, license and exploitation,
prostitution and daily life. Although filled with digressions and apparent
non-sequiturs, the crux of the film is its frank subversion of
male-stereotyped sex roles.” – Jim Hoberman, 1982

more info: www.microscopegallery.com

Vivienne Dick was born in Donegal, Ireland, in 1950 and between 1977 – 1982
she lived in New York, becoming one of the main figures of the ‘No Wave’
movement. Working mainly on Super 8, Dick’s films from this period feature
many New York artists and musicians, with performances from Lydia Lunch,
James Chance, Pat Place, Adele Bertei, and Ikue Mori, among others. Her
films have been screened at film festivals and museums internationally,
including Tate Britain, London, MoMA and the Whitney Museum in New York,
IMMA in Dublin, and the Edinburgh and Berlin Film Festivals. Her work is in
the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and Anthology Film Archives,
NYC, and the Irish Film Archives, among others. Dick lives in Galway,
Ireland, where she teaches and continues to make films.

Microscope Gallery
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tel: 347.925.1433
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