You Be Mother
You Be Mother, 1990 16mm col, sound 7min
Funded by a Julian Sullivan Award (Slade School of Art) and Hull Time Based Arts
Awarded ‘Best Experimental Film’ Oberhausen Short Film Festival 1991 ‘Best Innovation Prize’
Atlanta Short Film Festival 1993
You Be Mother uses stop-frame animation to disrupt the traditional orders of animate and inanimate, the fluid and the solid. An hallucinatory space is set up when a frozen image of the artist’s face is projected onto weighty pieces of crockery atop a table. Ears, eyes, nose and mouth, all become spatially dislocated as a determined hand begins to reposition, decant and mix. Events unfold to the amplified sounds of grinding, pouring and stirring.
- Directed and produced:
- Sarah Pucill
- Funded:
- Hull Time Based Arts and The Julian Sullivan Award
- Camera, Edit & Sound:
- Sarah Pucill