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
- 1989
- New Contemporaries, ICA, London (1989) – early version
- 1990
- London Film Festival; British Short Film Festival, London
- European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck Germany
- Rencontres Festival of Film and Video Art, Paris (and touring); Granada TV, UK; ‘Exiled’ touring show, curated by Moira Sweeney, ICA London
- 1991
- Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany
- Goethe Institute, Montréal
- 1992
- Cutting Edge, curated by Carol Brown and John Hoole, Barbican Gallery, London
- 1994
- Atlanta Short Film Festival
- Norwegian Short Film Festival
- Leipzig Festival of Documentary and Animation Art
- Tampere Short Film Festival, Finland
- 1998
- Tate Britain, Curated by Gary Thomas (retrospective)
- Lux, London (retrospective)
- 2000
- Lux, London DNET Festival of Electronic and Digital Art
- 2002
- 291 Gallery, London, Curated by L Jensen (retrospective)
- 2003
- Telling Tales, Serpentine Gallery, curated by Karen Alexander
- 2004
- The Magic Lantern Dream Cinema, Ciné Lumière Institute, Françe, London
- ‘A Century of Film and Video Artists’ curated by David Curtis, Tate Britain, London
- 2006
- The Collective Unconscious, curated programme, New York Filmmakers Coop
- ‘Light Reading’ series, NO.W.HERE Lab, London, Curated by K Mirza and B Butler
- 2007
- Stills Gallery Edinburgh The Millennium Film Workshop, New York (retrospective)
- The Subjective Camera series, Greenwich Picture House (retrospective)
- LightCone 25th Anniversary, Paris
- 2008
- Whitechapel Gallery Film Circus Film Weekend curated by Ian White
- The Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle Upon Tyne (retrospective)
- Live 8 Galway, Curated by Vivienne Dick
- 2011
- Moving Portrait, De La Warr Pavillion
- Showroom Gallery, Cinenova, London
- 2012
- Parasol Unit, Curated by Gil Leung, LUX
- BFI Southbank as part of Retrospective of films to launch LUX DVD of Sarah Pucill films: 1990-2010
- Imagem-Contato Film Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Madrid Experimental Film Festival (retrospective)
- 2015
- Documentary Film Festival, Brussels ‘To Film at all costs’l
- 2016
- Spring Psychoanalytic Poetry Festival, Freud Museum, London, 12 March
- 2017
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VideoGUD “Portrait” curated by Henrik Georg Fredberg Exhibited in public spaces in Gävleborg, Uppsala and Dalarna, Sweden
With Adam Magyar(US), Margaret Tait(UK), Marcin Bortkiewicz(PL) and Andy Warhol(US).
- Best Experimental Film Award – Oberhausen Short Film Festival – 1991
- Best Innovation Award – Atlanta Film Festival 1995
- USA ‘Wicked Women and Wayward Girls’, BFI compilation tape, distributed by Connoisseur Video
- 2010
- ‘Female Presence and the act of seeing: The haptic gaze in the films of Sarah Pucill’ by Gloria Morano, La Furia Umana No 5.