Patrick Dillon(I)
- Writer
- Art Department
- Producer
Patrick Dillon is a born and bred New Yorker who makes movies, writes
books, and builds large and small format collage out of the human
detritus he finds strewn on the streets of Harlem, where he lives, and
where he has, for the past fifteen years, taught newborn drug-addicted
babies how to suckle. A combat medic during the Vietnam War, Dillon
was once a cloistered Catholic monk-in-training, a Peace Corps
volunteer in Thailand after the war, working with Vietnamese refugees,
and was also deeply involved, after he came home, with the invention of
the first generation of personal computers and interactive software. He
has built and run refugee camps in Somalia (1992-93), with the Irish
humanitarian aid group Concern Worldwide), has smuggled film and video
equipment into Cuba in violation of the U.S. trade embargo, and has
infiltrated and written about domestic, militia-style terrorist
organizations. A trained carpenter, set builder, stunt man and
demolition rigger for movies, Dillon is also a furniture designer
and building restorer. Dillon is an Irish citizen (his people are
originally from The Dingle Peninsula) who has lived and worked on
several continents. He is currently finishing two films he shot and
directed, War Movie, about Iraqi street children who endured the
bombing of Baghdad, where he - and they - were trapped during the
infamous 'Shock and Awe' aerial assaults of 2003, and Man Made Mayhem,
about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' bombing of the Lower Ninth Ward
levees in New Orleans, where he spent seven months in search,
rescue, and re-building in the aftermath of the Katrina-Rita hurricanes
in 2005-06. Dillon is also developing documentary projects about
Michael Jackson, Sean "Diddy" Combs, eugenics and the lie of the AIDS
epidemic, garbage, the ethnic cleansing of Harlem, and the actual
'grassy knoll' shooter of President John F. Kennedy - a U.S.
government-trained assassin (Laos, 1959) and Chicago mob hit man hired
by rogue CIA black ops bureaucrat David Atlee Phillips, and whose
videotaped jailhouse confession Dillon is using as the basis for
his film, Killing The Kennedys.
Dillon's original screenplay, Somewhere in the City (1998), a comedy about loneliness, was produced and directed, to glowing reviews in 1998, by Iranian auteur Ramin Niami, and starred China's Bai Ling, Peter Stormere, and American comedienne Sandra Bernard. Dillon's other original screenplays range in subject matter from Agent Orange, to police corruption, to the Irish Potato famine, to Bobby Sands and the IRA hunger strikers, to ecological crises, to serial killers. His novels include Ulysses In Tenseltown - about Hollywood and war, propaganda and artistic freedom, and The Terror - set in America in the near future where an Orwellian police state has gained power - and focused on an extremely dangerous homegrown guerrilla operative and his and his young comrades' attempt to overthrow the government. His most recent non-fiction writing (Fall, 2005) appeared in the anthology Another Day In Paradise, co-written with other humanitarian aid workers, about his 10 year-old bodyguard - a boy named Muhammed Ali
Dillon's original screenplay, Somewhere in the City (1998), a comedy about loneliness, was produced and directed, to glowing reviews in 1998, by Iranian auteur Ramin Niami, and starred China's Bai Ling, Peter Stormere, and American comedienne Sandra Bernard. Dillon's other original screenplays range in subject matter from Agent Orange, to police corruption, to the Irish Potato famine, to Bobby Sands and the IRA hunger strikers, to ecological crises, to serial killers. His novels include Ulysses In Tenseltown - about Hollywood and war, propaganda and artistic freedom, and The Terror - set in America in the near future where an Orwellian police state has gained power - and focused on an extremely dangerous homegrown guerrilla operative and his and his young comrades' attempt to overthrow the government. His most recent non-fiction writing (Fall, 2005) appeared in the anthology Another Day In Paradise, co-written with other humanitarian aid workers, about his 10 year-old bodyguard - a boy named Muhammed Ali
- who died during the Somali famine of 1992-93. The book has been