Beauty Becomes the Beast - Movie

Beauty Becomes the Beast

Vivienne Dick
Fiction : 41' / Sexual Abuse, Women, Gender

A random-access world mediated by TV images and shards of popular culture. The film features Lydia Lunch regressing from adulthood to childhood, hinting at a sexually abusive past, and concerns itself with the position of woman as subject and the way women experience patriarchal law and the heterosexual order.

/ EXHIBITION

Porto

October 12 | 19h30 | Batalha Centro de Cinema - Sala 2 Buy Tickets

Sections: Retrospective
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/ Details

Year: 1979

Country: USA

Language: english

Subtitles: no subtitles

With: Lydia Lunch, Janet Stein, Mark Mood, Liz Swope, Lizzie Mercier, Klaus Nomi

/ 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)