2000, 16mm, b/w, sound 17min
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
- 2000-01
- Cinenova Festival, The LUX, London
- London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
- Feminale, Cologne, Germany
- Girlish– screenings part of Girl, New Walsall Art Gallery, UK
- 2002
- 291 Gallery (retrospective)
- 2005
- Wake (With Peggy Atherton) London Gallery West
- 2006
- Light ReadingSseries, NO.W.HERE, London, Curated K Mirza and B Butler
- Greenwich Picture House (retrospective)
- 2007
- The Subjective Camera Series Greenwich Picture House (retrospective)
- 2008
- The Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne (retrospective)
- 2009
- The Pleasure Dome, Toronto
- 2010
- The Book Club, London, curated Laura Kloss (retrospective)
- 2011
- BFI Southbank, Retrospective as part of LUX DVD launch of short films, February
- BFI Southbank, Retrospective, curated Elinor Cleghorn as part of the Maya Deren Season, October.
- 2012
- Madrid Experimental Film Festival, (retrospective)
- Two Lives, curated by Club de Femmes, in ‘Scala Beyond’, Horse Hospital
- 2022
- Spectacle Theatre, Brooklyn, New York, 22 June