Liberty's Booty - Vivienne Dick

Liberty’s Booty (USA, 1980, 47', HD digital file from 16mm) is an investigation into prositution from a female perspective under a late capitalist economy. The film is also a document and a celebration of a New York subculture in the late seventies. With a dense mix of real testimonies, verité footage and acted out scenarios, Dick examines power relations and the commodification of the body. The program opens with Guerrillère Talks, first film by Vivienne Dick. After both screenings, Vivienne Dick will engage in a conversation with Irish art historian Isobel Harbison. The exchange will focus on the filmmaker’s relationship to New York and the No Wave movement. Guerillère Talks (USA, 1978, 24’28’’, HD Video from Super8mm)Guérillère Talks is a series of portraits of women, all of whom are associated with the No Wave music and art scene. The film features Beate Nilsen, Ikue Mori, Lydia Lunch, Pat Place, Adele Bertei, and Anya Philips. The filmmaker’s presence is felt through the expressive camera movements which contribute an energy and intensity to this exploration into notions of identity, as performers perform themselves.