Heritage Week 2025: Screening of 'Leisure with Dignity' with Director's Q&A

Lecture Theatre, 6 Kildare Street, Dublin, D02 E434
Wednesday 20 August 2025
1-2pm

Join us for a special screening of Anne Maree Barry's Leisure with Dignity, followed by a Q&A with Anne Maree herself.

Leisure with Dignity (2017), Anne Maree Barry, 23mins
Curated by Sheena Barrett for The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin, 2017
Produced by Glen Collins
Director of Photography Richard Donnelly
Supported by The Arts Council.

Leisure with Dignity combines the artists’ own psychogeographic walking tours of the 'Monto' area in Dublin, to create a film that reflects historical events while at the same time presenting a complex portrait of female empowerment. Four characters: Madam May Oblong, Kitty D, Countess Aldborough and The Custom House establish a dialogue between locality, history, architecture, and the independence of women in a specific time.

“Barry’s richly atmospheric film is a clear-headed, unsentimental and subtle mediation on the lives women (in the Monto) could negotiate for themselves within the confining and disabling structures of patriarchal power and authority." Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, June 2017
Leisure with Dignity (2017) is part of the Arts Council Collection

This is a free event but tickets can be booked through our Eventbrite link here

Biography
Anne Maree Barry creates site specific film works, text and photography. Her work addresses connections between memory and loss. Barry's film work has been screened at international film festivals and cultural institutions, such as the Irish Film Institute, The Dublin International Film Festival, Darklight Film Festival, Aesthetica, Curtas Vila do Conde, Indie Cork, Les Rencontres Internationales, the LAB, Dublin, Tampere Art Museum, The Glucksman, Cork. Her film work Missing Green (2013) is part of F-Rated: Short Films by Irish Women at the Irish Film Institute archive. Her most recent work All Alone (2024) is an experimental folk piece rooted in the artist’s lived experience of rural Ireland, where she has made her home since 2019.

Screenings and exhibitions
Leisure with Dignity premiered at The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin in 2017 as part of Barry's solo exhibition ‘Otium cum Dignitate - Leisure with Dignity’ curated by Sheena Barrett. The film has been exhibited and screened at Building Societies, Architecture at the Edge festival, Galway and Composite Moving Image, Melbourne; A Nation Under The Influence: Ireland at 100, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; Who will write the History of Tears (Artists on Women's Rights) Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Warsaw; New Irish Video Croatian Association of Visual Arts (HDLU), Zagreb; The Tart with the Cart: Sex and Vulnerability in Ireland, The Gender Museum Denmark, Aarhus; The Five Lamps Arts Festival and A Pot of Films festival. It has also been presented at the symposium Capturing Conflict: The Irish War of Independence and Civil War on Film, Irish Film Institute with Maynooth University, and the 5th International Irish Narrative Inquiry Conference, Trinity College Dublin.