Upcoming Events
European Meda Art Festival – Milk and Glass
April 24- 28 European Media Art Festival No 37, 2024
Screening of ‘Milk and Glass’ (16mm, 10min, 1993)
Still from Milk and Glass (16mm, 10min, 1993)
Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art
Evening Screening of Double Exposure and discussion between the curator and writer Helena Reckitt and Sarah Pucill:
Double Exposure, 16mm+Digital, 28min, 2023, Best Experimental Film at Toronto Women Film Festival 2024, and which premiered at Frankfurt International Experimental Film Festival 2023.
At Danielle Arnaud Gallery, 123 Kennington Road, London SE11 6SF
‘Double Exposure’ film stills 2023
Double Exposure re-stages photographs of Pucill and her once partner Sandra Lahire, shortly before Sandra’s death from anorexia in 2001. These black and white photographic images are projected onto an interior wall, where the filmmaker steps inside. Alone with the camera, the filmmaker blindly positions herself into a place that she cannot see, to re-play the image, to meet herself then and Sandra, who both keep getting younger. ‘Double Exposure’ is a space created between two time-frames, between two women and between material and light as odd objects from the projections are placed in position with their ‘light projection’ double eg a dress, shoe, mirror, table, chair etc. Inside this imagined intimacy that is also empty, the silence in the room is interrupted with street sounds from the world outside. The monochrome static camera and slow-paced performance of unbroken time that constitutes the body of the film, is bookended with colour 16mm film of a sunny beach, where colour emulsion bleeds between the sea, sky and sun and Sandra dances spontaneously whilst chatting and joking with the filmmaker who is present at that time, soon after, and 21 years after the death. Sandra’s piano playing ‘Prelude in E minor’ by Chopin accompanies her spinning dance and puppet performance on the beach. Lines from a text Sandra was writing at the time the photographs were made, are read over the images by the filmmaker that include quotations from the painter Georgio de Chirico and poet Sylvia Plath, reflecting on enigma, love, camera memory and a body that cannot be heard.
Photography, A Queer History Publication
Book Publication ‘Photography; A Queer History’
by Dr Flora Dunster and Dr Theo Gordon, published by Ilex Press February 2024
Includes Untitled II from ‘Stages of Mourning’ 2002.
Interview with Nina Danino in forthcoming Publication.
Forthcoming Publication 2024:
‘Experimental narrative film and women’s practices at the London Film-maker’s Co-operative’
Interviews compiled by Nina Danino. Funded from a Research Support Award from University of Goldsmiths.
Film artist interviewees include: Nina Danino, Jean Matthee, Sarah Pucill, Katerina Thomadaki, Barbara Meter, Jayne Parker, Lis Rhodes, Anna Thew.
Research: Claire M Holdsworth (University of the Arts London), Simona Monizza (Eye Filmmuseum), Enrico Camporesi (Centre Pompidou, Musee National d’Art Moderne), Mark Webber (The Visible Press).
Mirror Mirror – Thames + Hudson
The photograph Narcissus (bw print from neg, 2013) which is from the film Magic Mirror (16mm, bw, 75min, 2013) will be published in a forthcoming book by Michael Petry entitled:
Mirror Mirror – The Reflective Surface in Contemporary Art
Published by Thames and Hudson, 2024
Narcissus (bw print from neg, 2013)
Forthcoming Book Publication
Forthcoming Book Publication (in English and Spanish) on
The work of filmmakers Sandra Lahire and Sarah Pucill
Editors: Francisco Algarin Navarro and Carlos Saldaña
With contributions from Laura Guy, Sandra Lahire, Sarah Pucill,
Lis Rhodes, Helen de Witt.
Publication Date End 2024