A Skinny Little Man Attacked Daddy - Movie

A Skinny Little Man Attacked Daddy

Vivienne Dick
Documentary : 23' / Autobiographical, Family, Identity

“The films I make are about my life and the people around me. I want to awaken the fearless self. A Skinny Man Attacked Daddy takes a look at the family and the place where I grew up. So much of what is ‘me’ comes from attitudes, expectations, fears, habits, beliefs that I inherited from my parents (and they in turn from theirs). The video is about separation from the family. My work is to try to know myself – the only way to change inherited patterns.” VD

/ EXHIBITION

Porto

October 13 | 15h00 | Batalha Centro de Cinema - Sala 2 Buy Tickets

Sections: Retrospective
+ Info: https://www.lux.org.uk

/ Details

Year: 1994

Country: UK

Language: english and gaelic

Subtitles: portuguese

With: Cathy Griffiths, Valerie Grant, Fiona Dick, John Dick, Florence Dick, Gerald Dick, Adrian Dick

/ Direction

Vivienne Dick

Ireland

Vivienne Dick (Donegal, Ireland, 1950) studied at University College, Dublin. Between 1977 and 1982 she lived in New York, part of a group of filmmakers affiliated to the music and aesthetic of punk. Dick returned to Ireland in 1982 and then to London in 1985, where she was a member of The London Filmmakers Coop for many years. Her films have been screened at cinemas, museums and film festivals, including Tate Britain, MoMA and Berlinale. She lives in Galway, Ireland, where she teaches and continues to make films.

Filmography

Selection:

2020 - New York Our Time (Documentary)
2015 - Red Moon Rising (Experimental Short)
2013 - The Irreducible Difference of the Other (Experimental Short)
1994 - A Skinny Little Man Attacked Daddy (Short Documentary)
1990 - New York Conversations (Short Documentary)
1983 - Like Dawn to Dust (Experimental Short)
1980 - Liberty’s Booty (Short Film)
1979 - Beauty Becomes the Beast (Short Film)
1978 - She Had Her Gun All Ready (Short Film)
1978 - Guerillère Talks (Short Film)
1978 - Staten Island (Experimental Short)