Kirby Dick Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Editor, Executive Producer, Cinematographer, Producer

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Crew: Director

Actors: Alison Andres, Kimberly Peirce, Jon Lewis, David Ansen, Martin Garbus, Wayne Kramer

Synopsis: In a rare and refreshing reversal of roles, filmmakers put the powerful Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA for short) under the microscope for inspection in Academy Award-nominated director Kirby Dick's incisive look at stateside cinema's most notorious non-censoring censors. Compelled by Read More

9/1/06
Twist of Faith

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Executive Producer

Synopsis: A man must reconcile his religion with a need for justice and closure in this documentary. Tony Comes was a firefighter living in Toledo, OH, with his wife and children. While Comes was a solid family man and had the respect of his fellow firemen, he was hiding a secret that had been haunting him Read More

7/1/05
The End

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

2004
Showgirls: Glitz and Angst

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Part of the America Undercover series on HBO, Showgirls: Glitz and Angst goes behind the scenes of a topless revue at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. Four individual showgirls are given cameras to tell their story: Melania is the daughter of showbiz parents, Kat is a mother of two, Syn Syn is the Read More

2003
Derrida

Crew: Director, Editor

Synopsis: Jacques Derrida is a French author and philosopher who is regarded as one of the world's leading exponents of deconstructionism, a school of thought which argues (among many other things) that "truth" is not an absolute, and must be viewed within the context of the mindset of the person expressing Read More

10/23/02
Chain Camera

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Synopsis: Wanting to make a film about American teenagers in the year 2000, filmmaker Kirby Dick took a novel approach; he went to John Marshall High School, a Los Angeles-area school with a racially and economically diverse student body, and gave ten portable video cameras to ten students, asking them to Read More

2001
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer

Actors: Kirby Dick, Sheree Rose, Bob Flanagan

Synopsis: This documentary profiles poet/performance artist Bob Flanagan, who was born with cystic fibrosis. Flanagan explains, with engaging humor, how his obsession with controlled, self-inflicted pain has helped him to deal with his uncontrollable suffering. His philosophy forces one to look at Read More

1997
Guy

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Vincent D'Onofrio, Hope Davis, Kimber Riddle, Diane Salinger, Richard Portnow

Synopsis: Simply switch on the nightly news and you will see that the media has become increasingly intrusive into the lives of people involved in extraordinary circumstances. What is the true impact of the omnipresent camera upon those circumstances? How does it change the existence of those living beneath Read More

1996
Patti Rocks

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Chris Mulkey, John Jenkins, Karen Landry

Synopsis: A macho misogynist meets his match in this independent comedy-drama. Shortly before Christmas, Eddie Jenks (John Jenkins) gets a call from his old friend Billy Regis (Chris Mulkey). Billy has just learned that his girlfriend Patti Rocks (Karen Landry) is pregnant; Patti doesn't know that Billy Read More

1/15/88
I Am Not a Freak

Crew: Director

1987
Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Maureen Sullivan

Synopsis: A most unusual career, unlisted in any college curricula, is the subject of this informative and curious documentary on sex surrogates. Basically, that means sex therapy through having sex. Clients are referred to surrogates via their own analysts, and the surrogate studied in this documentary is Read More

1985