Sarah Pucill

Cast creates a claustrophobic and haunting space where people and things invade worlds in which they do not normally belong. Lifeless dolls are heaped inside drawers, dolled-up life size figures lie motionless on a windy beach at the water’s edge; a chair rocks in an empty room, a mirror reflects and observes, and a chest of drawers is caressed by the sea. The film has a dramatic sensibility that sets up a false promise of narrative. Its structure, instead, is akin to that of dreams where different scenic spaces collapse and the inanimate and animate interchange. Wide-angled perspectives, shifting points of view and juxtapositions of sound and silence force inner and outer realities to collide, creating an unsettling psychic world.

Directed and produced:

Sarah Pucill

Funded:

Arts Council of England

Camera:

Sarah Pucill, Noski De Ville

Art Direction:

Louisa Bare

Make Up:

Tae-ho Lee, Sarah Pucill

Performers:

Two women:Sandra Lahire, Sarah Weatherall.
Child: Marion Knight

 

Woman on beach: Ella Pratt, Lucy Pratt, Diane Knight

Second Camera:

Sandra Lahire

Editing, Sound Advisor:

Sandra Lahire