American Dreams #4
Moira Teirney
Friday, June 4th - Sunday, June 27th, 2010
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Moira Tierney graduated with an honours BA from University College Dublin and went on to study fine art at l’Ecole Nationale d’Arts de Cergy-Paris, graduating with an honours Diplome Nationale Superieure d’Expression Plastique. She was granted an Arts Council film award and a Fulbright Scholarship (to Anthology Film Archives in New York) as well as a grant from the Irish Taoiseach’s Department for her film project ‘Matilda Tone’. Since moving to New York Moira has completed 14 short films as well as the half-hour documentary ‘Matilda Tone’; her films have screened internationally at venues such as the Fondation Cartier in Paris, the Rio Film Festival, the London and Edinburgh Film Festivals, the Rotterdam Film Festival and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, as well as participating in numerous touring programmes and gallery shows. Anthology Film Archives in New York and Les Inattendus Film Festival in Lyon have screened retrospective programmes of her work. Her films are distributed by Third World Newsreel and the Film-Makers Co-operative in New York and the Collectif Jeune Cinema in Paris.
