She’s gone, but she’s not forgotten.
The Museum of the Moving Image will present a Tribute to Sinéad O’Connor from Sunday, Sept. 3, to Sunday, Sept. 10.
The program features two screenings of a documentary on the famous entertainer and two screenings of a movie which demonstrates her acting talents.
General admission is $15 per event with discounts for seniors, students, and youths.
Nothing Compares shows in MoMI’s Redstone Theater on Sept. 3 at 1:30 pm and in MoMI’s Bartos Screening Room on Sept. 10 at 2:30 pm.
Directed by Kathryn Ferguson, this 2022 documentary charts OʼConnorʼs rise to worldwide fame and examines how she used her stardom to advocate for certain causes. The archive-led film includes music videos, concert performances, and an interview of her. In other scenes, artists, musicians, and social commentators discuss Irish history, politics, and global activism.
The Butcher Boy shows in the Redstone Theater on Sept. 3 at 3:30 pm and in the Bartos Screening Room on Sept. 9 at 3:30 pm.
Directed by Neil Jordan, this 1997 narrative is an adaptation of Patrick McCabe’s eponymous novel. O’Connor acts alongside Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Eamonn Owens, Allen Boyle, Aisling O’Sullivan, and Brendan Gleeson.
Red-headed tweener Francie Brady (Owens) is a troublemaker in a working-class Irish town with an alcoholic father and mentally unwell mother. Amid an early 1960s milieu of rampant unemployment, Cold War terror, and strict Catholic school indoctrination, Francie’s rebellions at first seem understandable, until the circumstances of his life start to veer out of control. O’Connor plays Francie’s hallucinated vision of a sympathetic and foul-mouthed Virgin Mary.
O’Connor, who had changed her name to Shuhada Sadaqat and converted to Islam before her death this past July 26, was born in Dublin on Dec. 8, 1966. After her debut album, The Lion and the Cobra, was released in 1987, she became an international phenomenon. (Her 1990 album, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, sold more than 7 million copies.) All the while, she drew intense media attention due her activism, controversial statements, and public battles with mental health.
Photo courtesy of Showtime