All posts by Sarah Pucill
Eye Cut, 2021
16mm col, 20min, 2021: 14 October 2021
The film’s protagonist is a masked woman in a nude bodysuit, who wears a cardboard box that doubles as a theatre stage. The woman takes us on a surrealist journey in which she performs to an invisible applauding audience. Having passed through red curtains writhing on her back, she arrives on stage bearing a cake on her front. Hand-held cardboard puppets, that she makes from magazine cut-outs of faceless men, go on to take part in an ominous party scene around the cake, candle-lit and spinning. The audience see the woman in disguise, her eyes peeping through cut out eye holes of a man’s cardboard face, as if taking his place. She changes her mask and its gender throughout, sometimes wearing two. Flipping the card puppet-figures, she reveals on the backside, half formed sentences. These morse code- like hand-arm movements struggle to communicate something of the underside of the puppets’ pleasure.
Moving from the abstract to the overt, the film sets up a dialogue between an interior experience of a sensory landscape with the outside world, where the privacy of the body is made uncomfortably public. Eye Cut is an experiment of what can and cannot be enunciated before we are taken to the final ‘stage’ scene, where cut out text from the MeToo movement projects as a backcloth in a domestic space as she tries to eat.
Winner of Best Experimental Film – Toronto International Women Film Festival 2022
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- Performer:
- Laura Matilde Mannino
- Camera+edit:
- Sarah Pucill
- Sound Consultant:
- Mairead McClean
- Rushes Grade:
- Fraser Watson
- Sound Mix+On-line Edit:
- Konrad Welz
- Directed+Produced:
- Sarah Pucill
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London Film Festival Premiere: 14 October 2021-Official Selection
Jeu de Paume, Paris, November 2021 In Vivienne Dick Retrospective
‘Feel The Reel’ Film Festival, Glasgow, November 2021-Official Selection
Toronto International Women Film Festival 2022 – Best Experimental Film 2022
Paris Short Film Festival 2022 – Official Selection – 13-28 March
Berlin International Art Film Festival 2022 -Official Selection – March-April 2022′
Montreal International Independent Film Festival- Official Selection April 2022
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Screening of Magic Mirror at St Brelades’s Church Hall, Jersey
Organised by LIBERATE, the screening will commence at 7.30pm at St Brelades Church,
followed by a visit to Claude Cahun’s garden.
Screening at 8pm.
Q+A with Vic Tanner Davy from Liberate Group and founder of Trans Jersey (supporting the LGBTQ communities across the Channel Islands).
Seou International New Media Festival
Screening of Magic Mirror, August 2014
Seoul International New Media Festival
Screening of Magic Mirror August 2014
Magic Mirror – Series 2013
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2013
Photographic Print from Negative
Le Diable I
2013
Photographic Print from Negative
Le Diable II
2013
Photographic Print from Negative
Chess Game
2013
Photographic Print from Negative
2013
Barbe Bleu doubled
FIlm Still
Mannekin and Me
2013
Photographic Print from Negative
Doll Seated
2013
Photographic Print from Negative
White Satin
2013
Photographic Print from Negative
Hand Mirror Photo Collage
2013
Photographic Print from Negative
Narcissus
2013
Photographic Print from Negative
Card Player
2013
Photographic Print from Negative