Visibility Moderate (1981)

Vivienne Dicks first film after the New York series takes her back to her native Ireland Using Super8 film as a parody of the travelogue or homemovie style film Dick takes a expatriate tourist look at her homeland The narrative follows Margaret Ann Irinsky as the American tourist trekking from a Dublin populated by Hare Krishnas and rock music to the horsedrawn carriages in the west of Ireland and the kissing of the Blarney stone The quaint perception of Ireland and the Americanization of the native culture are contrasted with interviews from sectarian prisoners and footage of political marches As in all her work Dick uses a mixture of verità shots which capture the essence of the locality and intersperses them with images which have a totally different feel This method is used to highlight issues in a subtle way wherein the camera takes an active rather than a voyeuristic role