Sarah PUCILL

(1961- )
Nationalité anglaise

[en] Sarah Pucill’s films and photographs explore the mirroring and merging we seek in the Other; a sense of self which is transformative and fluid. At the core of her practice is a concern with mortality and the materiality of the filmmaking process. The majority of her films take place within the confinements of domestic space, where the grounded reality of the house itself becomes a portal to a complex and multi layered psychical realm. In her explorations of the animate and inanimate, her work probes a journey between mirror and surface, in which questions of representation are negotiated via the feminine, the queer or the dead.

Her latest production, Phantom Rhapsody (2010) will be part of a new DVD compilation to be published by the LUX early 2011 with a launch at BFI Southbank in February and as a double programme in Paris in March with Light Cone as part of their Scratch festival and at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts and Cinema Action Christine. Distinctive in its stark use of black and white, this film draws connections between canonical painting, early cinema and theatrical side-show ‘magic’ acts. The film examines the appearance and disappearance of the phantom as it relates to the present/absent dynamic of visible lesbian sexuality in the canons of both cinema and art history.

Fall In Frame (2009), toured leading venues in the US and Canada last year (including Film Anthology Archives, Pleasure Dome, Toronto and LA Filmforum, Los Angeles), was screen

11 FILMS EN DISTRIBUTION

	PHANTOM RHAPSODY 2010 / 16 mm / n&b / son / 19' 00 / 71 €
	FALL IN FRAME 2009 / Mini DV / coul / son / 18' 00 / 55 €
	BLIND LIGHT 2007 / 16 mm / coul / son / 21' 00 / 64 €
	TAKING MY SKIN 2006 / Beta SP ou Beta Numérique / n&b / son / 35' 00 / 132 €
	STAGES OF MOURNING 2004 / 16 mm / coul / son / 17' 00 / 81 €
	CAST 2000 / Beta SP / n&b / son / 17' 00 / 71 €
	SWOLLEN STIGMA 1998 / Beta SP / coul / son / 20' 00 / 71 €
	MIRRORED MEASURE 1996 / 16 mm ou Beta SP / n&b / son / 10' 00 / 31 €
	BACKCOMB 1995 / 16 mm / coul / son / 6' 00 / 24 €
	MILK AND GLASS 1993 / 16 mm / coul / son / 10' 00 / 31 €
	YOU BE MOTHER 1990 / Beta SP ou 16 mm / coul / son / 7' 00 / 23 €