Moira Tierney

Moscow tower block polar bear.

The twin-screen battle for survival of Dublin's inner-city Smithfield Horse Market.

Kodachrome rules, ok?

A performance by Eric Hokansen at the Jajo Gallery, Newark, New Jersey, November 15th 2008 Presented by Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn.

Love & revolution in a Brooklyn graveyard ... how was it for you, Mrs Tone? ... a collision of 18th & 21st century body politics.

Filmed in New York in the summer of 2006: a march across the Brooklyn Bridge in support of the Palestinian and Lebanese populations. Habibi means "beloved" in Arabic.

Moscow tower block polar bear.

The twin-screen battle for survival of Dublin's inner-city Smithfield Horse Market.

Kodachrome rules, ok?

A performance by Eric Hokansen at the Jajo Gallery, Newark, New Jersey, November 15th 2008 Presented by Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn.

Love & revolution in a Brooklyn graveyard ... how was it for you, Mrs Tone? ... a collision of 18th & 21st century body politics.

Filmed in New York in the summer of 2006: a march across the Brooklyn Bridge in support of the Palestinian and Lebanese populations. Habibi means "beloved" in Arabic.

The neighbourhood of Tevragh Zeina in Nouakchott, Mauritania.

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.

Shot in El DF - Mexico City - canvas poundin and divided allegiances ...

A collective film, shot during a super-8mm workshop in Bellefontaine, Toulouse.

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 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.

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 ...

New York's Haitian community take it to the bridge to protest a year of mortal policing, Easter 2000

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 ...

The first two installments of a continuing saga: Lust for Wander & Running Free.

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 ...

The wolf has made it right to your door ...

Commissioned by and filmed with the young seminole tribe of mardigras indians in new orleans, on st joseph's night, 2013

Hot grainy tightrope walkers, Chinese acrobats, Russian human towers & an inverted Wall of Death ...

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.

Scandinavian Performance Art at Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, November 11, 2009.

A 16mm loop created for the Peace III Project (Leitrim/Fermanagh)

A collective portrait of the children of 4th class, St. Audoen's Primary School, Dublin.

A Super-8mm portrait of HIV advocacy campaigners during a photoshoot in Brooklyn and Harlem in the summer of 2006. The photoshoot doubled up as a fashion shoot to promote the organization's new campaign, Does HIV Look Like Me? which hit the road shortly afterwards.

Performance by Jill McDermid at English Kills Gallery, New York

Max Roach & Cecil Taylor at Columbia University, New York

Performance art at Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn