Backcomb

Backcomb - a film by Sarah Pucill

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
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