Backcomb
Backcomb, 1995
16mm col, sound 6min
Funded by Carlton TV and London Production Fund
In Backcomb the demonic is unleashed on domestic space. It takes the form of two of femininity’s mildest tokens, hair and embroidery, that serve here in the creation of a sexualised surrealist experience. Within the claustrophobic space of a table-lay, a forceful and erectile mass of hair comes alive and slithers across its surface. The hair probes into vessels and punches through the cloth till finally order overturns and all smashes to the ground.
- Directed:
- Sarah Pucill
- Produced:
- Maggie Ellis
- Funded:
- Carlton TV and London Production Fund
- Art Direction:
- Alix Harwood
- Camera
- Belinda Parsons, Sarah Pucill
- Camera Assistance:
- Sarah Gardiner
- Performers:
- Karen Ashton
- Dubbing mixer:
- Andy Sears
- Edit & Sound:
- Sarah Pucill