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Beauty Becomes the Beast

Vivienne Dick


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Vivienne Dick

Synopsis

Beauty Becomes the Beast describes a random access world mediated by TV images and shards of popular culture. The film features a powerful performance by Lydia Lunch regressing from adulthood to childhood, hinting at a sexually abusive past. As in many of Dick’s films, it concerns itself with the position of woman as subject and the way women experience patriarchal law and the heterosexual order.

(Sourced from http://maeveconnolly.net/wp/newsite/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Vivienne-Dick-Film-Programme.pdf on July 18th 2016)


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Title

Beauty Becomes the Beast

Year

1979

Form

Feature

Key phrases

feminist, portrait, music, teenage jesus and the jerks (musical group), lunch, lydia, bertei, adele, no wave (music), patriarchy, punk culture

Language

English

Duration

00:40:00

Original formats

Physical: Film: Super 8mm

Aspect ratio

4:3

Colour

Colour

Sound

Yes

Supported by Kildare County Council Arts Service, the Arts Council of Ireland and Visual Artists Ireland.
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