Moira Tierney
In 2000, Masha Godovannaya curated a programme entitled Avant-Garde Alternatives: An Evolution of American Experimental Film, which went on tour in Russia, making stops in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. We visited necro-realist film-maker Yevgeny Yufit at his house beside Lake Seliger, helping him repair the house we stayed in and, in exchange, being lavished with the fresh fish that landed in his nets every day. This film is a tribute to Yufit, who died in St. Petersburg in 2016.
New Orleans : along Claiborne Avenue in the Tremé, the community reclaims its history and territory through its mural work and the through the masking traditions of the Mardi Gras Indians.
Remain calm and wait for instructions. Cooperate with their inquiries. Do not make any sudden moves. Take a deep breath and develop your strategy, which will be used later, after you have filed your complaint. Remain calm ...
A collective film, shot during a super-8mm workshop in Bellefontaine, Toulouse.
Scandinavian Performance Art at Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, November 11, 2009.
Shot on Elder Avenue in the Bronx: a mural painted in honour of Amadou Diallo, who lived just down the block; daily life in the 'hood, where people are de facto targets for police bullets, but go about their daily lives regardless, doing the shopping, sweeping the street, looking after the kids ...
A collective portrait of the children of 4th class, St. Audoen's Primary School, Dublin.
Love & revolution in a Brooklyn graveyard ... how was it for you, Mrs Tone? ... a collision of 18th & 21st century body politics.
What happens when the smoke clears? One of the most remarkable sights was the mass movement of people, on foot, along highways usually reserved for motorized traffic. The Brooklyn & Manhattan bridges, as well as the FDR Drive, which runs along the East River from lower to upper Manhattan, became human rivers with an unhurried but steady flow & no end in sight.
New York's Haitian community take it to the bridge to protest a year of mortal policing, Easter 2000
The first two installments of a continuing saga: Lust for Wander & Running Free.
For a long time Saint Patrick has been touted as the redemptor of Pagan Ireland: the man who rid the country of its snake population. We felt it was time to redress this historical imbalance and give the snakes their due. It's all in the Eye of the Chameleon ...
Winnie Collins and Gang whoop it up beside the caravans where they live in Dublin’s South Docks. The film was made at their request; the music was composed & recorded subsequently in New York.
Music video for Irish singer-songwriter SOPHIE COYLE, shot on the Pigeon House Wall in Dublin's South Docks.
Performance by Jill McDermid at English Kills Gallery, New York
Commissioned by and filmed with the young seminole tribe of mardigras indians in new orleans, on st joseph's night, 2013
