Sarah Pucill: Selected Films 1990-2010

Synopsis: Pucill’s experimental work is concerned with mortality and the materiality of the filmmaking process. Many of her earlier 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 realm. Her most recent film PHANTOM RHAPSODY (2010) marks a new departure. In its stark use of black and white, the film examines the appearance and disappearance of the phantom as it relates to the partial visibility of lesbian sexuality in the canons of both cinema and art history. This DVD consists of seven selected films spanning the two decades of Pucill’s practice; extras include a 26-page booklet with full film notes and 3 newly-commissioned essays by Lucy Reynolds, Cherry Smyth, and Margherita Sprio.
Films included:
You Be Mother, 1990, 7 min
Backcomb, 1995, 6 min
Swollen Stigma, 1998, 20 min
Cast, 2000, 17 min
Stages Of Mourning, 2004, 17 min
Taking My Skin, 2006, 35 min
Phantom Rhapsody, 2010, 19 min
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of production: 1990-2010
Subjects: Film studies; Media studies
Keywords: experimental film & video

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