Sarah Pucill

Sarah Pucill's films have been shown in galleries and won awards at Festivals internationally.

Sarah Pucill has continuously been making 16mm short films that have received public funding since completing her MA at the Slade in 1990. Her first feature length film Magic Mirror (75min, b/w, 2013), which premiered at Tate Modern, extends Pucills concern with the animation of a still image as well as her focus on relationships between women by paying homage to Claude Cahun through the transposition of Cahun’s images and words into film. Magic Mirror re-stages and animates many of Cahun’s photographs on 16mm black and white film, bringing movement and a chorus of voices to Cahun’s writing from Aveux Non Avenus (Confessions Denied 1930). The film was screened at ICA, London Art Fair, Birkbeck Cinema, and toured internationally with LUX. A LUX DVD was published Autumn 2014. The film was staged as an exhibition at the Nunnery Gallery May and June 2015 alongside photographs from the film as well as by Claude Cahun. A second feature length film also shot on celluloid, Confessions To The Mirror (68min) premiered at the London Film Festival in October 2016.

Image credit You Be Mother II © Sarah Pucill 1990

You Be Mother II © Sarah Pucill 1990