Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Vivienne Dick is an Irish experimental and documentary filmmaker, and, according to The Irish Times, "one of the most important film-makers Ireland has produced". Her early films helped define the No Wave scene.Dick was born in Dublin and grew up in Ireland during the 1950s, attending college there in the 1960s. She emigrated to the United States in the 1970s. Upon her arrival in the U.S., Dick became an integral figure in No Wave film culture and produced a series of seminal Super8 short films. Living in New York, which was undergoing a recession and an inexpensive place to live, many of her films were staged around well-known sites such as Coney Island, the Statue of Liberty, and the World Trade Center. The films featured punk performers such as Lydia Lunch, Pat Place (of the band Bush Tetras) and Adele Bertei (of The Contortions). Film critic and author J. Hoberman has called Dick the "quintessential No Wave filmmaker".In 1982 Dick moved to Ireland, and then to London where she continued making films.Dick's work formed part of two major retrospectives of American avant garde film: No Wave Cinema 1978-87 (1996) at the Whitney Museum, New York and Big as Life: An American History of Super8 Film (1999) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.Dick currently teaches filmmaking at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology. Dick is making a documentary on underground Irish bands. As of 2011 she is planning a "probably" feminist film.Her work is examined in the 2010 documentary Blank City, which discusses the No Wave movement.She is referenced by the feminist dance-punk group, Le Tigre, in their song "Hot Topic.". }
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- Vivienne_Dick abstract "Vivienne Dick is an Irish experimental and documentary filmmaker, and, according to The Irish Times, "one of the most important film-makers Ireland has produced". Her early films helped define the No Wave scene.Dick was born in Dublin and grew up in Ireland during the 1950s, attending college there in the 1960s. She emigrated to the United States in the 1970s. Upon her arrival in the U.S., Dick became an integral figure in No Wave film culture and produced a series of seminal Super8 short films. Living in New York, which was undergoing a recession and an inexpensive place to live, many of her films were staged around well-known sites such as Coney Island, the Statue of Liberty, and the World Trade Center. The films featured punk performers such as Lydia Lunch, Pat Place (of the band Bush Tetras) and Adele Bertei (of The Contortions). Film critic and author J. Hoberman has called Dick the "quintessential No Wave filmmaker".In 1982 Dick moved to Ireland, and then to London where she continued making films.Dick's work formed part of two major retrospectives of American avant garde film: No Wave Cinema 1978-87 (1996) at the Whitney Museum, New York and Big as Life: An American History of Super8 Film (1999) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.Dick currently teaches filmmaking at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology. Dick is making a documentary on underground Irish bands. As of 2011 she is planning a "probably" feminist film.Her work is examined in the 2010 documentary Blank City, which discusses the No Wave movement.She is referenced by the feminist dance-punk group, Le Tigre, in their song "Hot Topic."".