Transcript of Presentation and Interview with K Pratschke and G Hamos:

“The process of making and the intermedial in the tableaux vivants in Magic Mirror (2013) and Confessions To The Mirror (2016), in Photo-Film: Sampling The Archives Conference Papers, Ed Katja Pratschke and Gustave Hamos, Thomas Tod,  2018.

“Coming to Life and Intermediality in the tableaux vivants in  Magic Mirror (Pucill, 2013) and Confessions To The Mirror (Pucill, 2016)”

Forthcoming chapter by in Experimental Film and Artists’ Moving Image Series: Experimental and Expanded Animation, Editors, Nicky Hamlyn,Vicky Smith, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Screening of Confessions To The Mirror (16mm, col, 68min, 2016)

Q+A with the filmmaker  and Invited Speaker Art Historian Maria Walsh

6.30pm,  Bloomsbury Studio, UCL, London WC1H OAH

A UCL Art Museum Event

Screening of Confessions to the Mirror (16mm, col, 68min, 2016)

Poster is a still from Confessions to the Mirror (Pucill)

Bagdam Lesbian Film Festival, Toulouse, France

21e PRINTEMPS LESBIEN DE TOULOUSE !

Lunchtime Talk between Sarah Pucill and  Çağlar Tahiroğlu as part of the “Temporalities” Exhibition which will be in the gallery  20 February – 25 March 2018.

The focus of the discussion is on the films of Sandra Lahire, in particular Lahire’s film Arrows (1984).

Group exhibition:

New Art Projects 11 Jan to 4 March 2018

6D Sheep Lane, London, E8 4QS

Threesome, Exhibition of women painters and

3×3, Exhibition of nine photographers, curated by Anna McNay 

Exploring the lesbian gaze and gesture

Wallpaper Review

Studio International Review

BEEF Bristol Experimental Film No2

at Cube Microplex Cinema 7pm

Dove Street South
[off top-left of King Square]
Kingsdown
Bristol
BS2 8JD

Screening  and Q+A with filmmaker

Confessions To The Mirror (2016, 68min)

Phantom Rhapsody (16mm, bw, 20min, 2010)

THREESOME   An Exhibition of three women painters and

3 X 3  An Exhibition of nine women photographers curated by Anna McNay

Thursday 11 Jan 2018 – Sunday 4 March 2018

New Art Projects, 6D Sheep Lane, London E8 4QS

Featuring:

Roxana Hals     Sarah Jane Moon    Sadie Lee

Emil Bendixen    Imogen Crew    Lisa Gornick    Liz Helman    Rachael House    Marta Kochanek    Bronac McNeill    The Naked Artist Suzie Pindar    Sarah Pucill    Ursula Martinez

“Portrait” curated by Henrik Georg Fredberg

You Be Mother exhibited in public spaces in Gävleborg, Uppsala and Dalarna,  Sweden

with Adam Magyar(US), Margaret Tait(UK), Marcin Bortkiewicz(PL) and Andy Warhol(US). ​

Screening of Blind Light (16mm col, 21min, 2007)

as part of  LightField 7-10 December

The Lab – 2948 16th Street, SF, CA

Screening of Confessions To The Mirror + Magic Mirror, Cinema Cirko Gejzir

60 min Presentation of the Cahun diptych of films including clips from Magic Mirror and Confessions To The Mirror as part of

The Film Series and Conference:  PHOTOFILM: SAMPLING THE ARCHIV.

At GUGA (Center of Architecture, a venue that is in opposition to the hungarian government), in co-operation with the Metropolitcan University, Budapest, Hungary

Organised by Katja Pratschke and Thomas Tode

Screening of Fall In Frame (16mm, col, 18min, 2009)

City 46, Bremen, Germany

Confessions To The Mirror (16mm col, 68min, 2016)

was awarded an Honourable Mention at

Experimental Film Forum, LA

Irish Film Institute, Dublin

Screening of short films curated by Vivienne Dick

Backcomb, 16mm (digital file) 7min, 1995

Screening of Blind Light (16mm, 21min, 2007)

curated by Michele Smith

DIM Cinema, The Cinemateque, Vancouver,

Canada

“In Your Face: Queer Artists Versions Of Themselves”

At Salisbury Art Centre,

Exhibition: 23 September to 4 November 2017

Curated by artist Sadie Lee

Gladstone Art Bar Evening Screening of 16mm films:

Early Monthly Segments

Milk and Glass 10min (1993)

Swollen Stigma 21min (1998)

Stages Of Mourning 17min (2004)

Guest Curator:  Carley Whitfield

Staging of the film Phantom Rhapsody, 16mm, b/w, 17min, 2010}

Invited to exhibit Phantom Rhapsody in the first ever staging of artist film works.  Other film artist was Isaac Julien.

Summer Exhibition, 13 June to 20 August

Sunday 6 August at 2pm

Screening:

2PM   Magic Mirror (2013) and 3.15pm Confessions To The Mirror ( 2016)

As part of ‘Dreamers Awake’ – a group show that brings together over 100 works by women artists from the 1930s to the present day; including Lenora Carrington, Eileen Agar, Maya Deren and Claude Cahun.

Obsessive Underground Film Festival

Official Selection:

Confessions To The Mirror

Cinemateket, Oslo

Droningens Gt 16

18 June 6pm

Screening of Confessions To The Mirror

Programme curated by Greg Pope as part of ‘The Dream That Kicks’

National Portrait Gallery

Screening of Confessions To The Mirror

Q+A  with Sadie Lee and filmmaker

17 March, 6.30pm

as part of the Claude Cahun and Gillian Wearing Exhibition

Maison des Arts – Place Salvador Allende,    F – 94000 Creteil, Paris

Confessions To The Mirror (16mm, col, 68min, 2016)

Friday 7.45pm 3 March

Scottish Premiere

Screening at Close Up Cinema, 97 Sclater Street, London E1 6HR

19 February

8.30pm  Confessions To The Mirror (orig 16mm col, 68min, 2016), Premiered at London Film Festival

6.30pm   Magic Mirror (org 16mm, b/w, 75min, 2013), Premiered at Tate Modern

It Is necessary to book in advance!

Premiere of  Confessions To The Mirror  (16mm col, 68min)

BFI Southbank, Lecture Theatre 3,

8.30pm

Milk and Glass (1993) to be exhibited as part of ArtVerona Art Fair in Venice, curated by Giulia Casalini, at Biblioteca Civica di Verona – Archivio di Videoarte del Veneto (Verona Public Library – Veneto Videoart Archive),  6 October -5  November 2016

Film and the Other Arts, Intermediality, Medium Specificity, Creativity, International Research Network.

Christi Corpus College, Cambridge.

Screening of Magic Mirror and a presentation of the two feature length films  [Magic Mirror (16mm b/w, 75min, 2013), and Confessions To The Mirror (16mm, col, 68min, 2016) on the voice and photographs of Claude Cahun (1894-1954).

From Reel to Real: Women, Feminism and the London Film-makers Co-operative, Tate Modern, Starr Cinema,  23-25 September.

Screenings of

Milk and Glass (1993) in Filmic Bodies Sat 24 Sept 4.15pm

Swollen Stigma (1998) in Inside Out Sat 24 Sept 7.30pm

‘Feminisms, Mirrors, Claude Cahun and Sarah Pucill – a dialogue’ by  Dr Margherita Sprio in MIRAJ Magazine, Issue 4, 1+2 (Spring 2016)

Text on Mirrored Measure, (16mm, b/w, 10min, 1996) and a film by Mara Mattuschka by Caroline Koebel Pascal-Godel (16mm, b/w 5minm 1986)

In production: Confessions To The Mirror

16mm colour, 70mins, will explore Claude Cahun’s final and incomplete text ‘Confessions To The Mirror’ (1954) through a re-staging of Cahun’s photographs in colour.   Completion date anticipated June 2016

Experimental FIlm and Feminism Round Table discussion, to be published in 4.1 issue of MIRAJ (Moving Image Review + Art Journal)  with Nina Danino, Alia Syed, Jean Matthee, and Ruth Novaczek, chaired by Maria Palacios.

Screening of You Be Mother (16mm, 7min, 1990)

12 March The Freud Museum, London

Screening of ‘Stages Of Mourning’ (17min, 16mm, 20014)

Curated by Family Ties Network

Screening atThe Glad Cafe, Glasgow

Part of Scottish Queer International Film Festival, ‘Queer Women in Love, part of BFI LOVE

Screening of Swollen Stigma with ‘The Wedding Song’

Festival Filmer a tout prix.  Screening of ‘You Be Mother’ (16mm, 7min, 1990)

Brussels

Screening of  ‘Swollen Stigma’ (20min, 16mm, 1998)

Curated by Helen Wright, Glasgow Film Theatre

Part of the series Self-Representation in Visual Culture:

Screening of Magic Mirror  (75min, 2013, Pucill) with Cindy the Doll is mine by Bertrand Bonello,  as part of the Birkbeck Institute For the Moving Image Research Seminar Series.

Sarah Pucill will be in discussion with Laura Mulvey regarding her film.  The evening will be convened by Muriel Temple.

Birkbeck Institute, 43 Gordon Square, London

Staged exhibition of ‘Magic Mirror’ (75min, 16mm, 2013)  in ‘Radical Gestures: Uncanny Feminism’, curated by Bae Myung Ji

8 October – 5 December

Screening of Magic  Mirror (2013)

Ecoles des beaux arts de Nantes

curated by Marion Chaigne

‘no.w.here:   First Floor, 316-318 Bethnal Green Road,  London,  E2 OAG

 Film Screening:    Queering Love, Queering Hormones 

‘Fuses’  (Carolee Schneeman, 1965),  ‘Pregnancy’,  (Dr Micha Cardenas, 2014), ‘Milk and Glass’, (Sarah Pucill, 1993),  ‘Operation Invert’ (Tara Mateik, 200),  ‘Sobbingspittingscratching’, (Vicky Smith, 2014)

Screening of Magic Mirror at St Brelade’s Church Hall, Jersey.

Organised by Liberate Group, the evening will start at St Brelades Church, followed by a visit to Claude Cahun’s garden.  The film will be screened at 8pm and will be followed by a Q+A with Vic Tanner Davy (from Liberate Group and founder of Trans* Jersey (supporting the LGBTQ communities across the Channel Islands) and the filmmaker.

Projection of films by Sarah Pucill

Swollen Stigma (1998), 21min,

Phantom Rhapsody (2010), 19min

The first of Experimental Film cycle ‘Attaque le visible, curated by Katja Gorska

Courtesy of Sarah Pucill and LUX, London

Review by Mark Harris in Art Montly, June Issue No 387.

Join us at the Nunnery Gallery for an in conversation with curator and critic Helena Reckitt and artist filmmaker Sarah Pucill.

Nunnery Gallery, 181 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ

Review by Frances Morgan in Sight and Sound

Magic Mirror (16mm, b/w, 75min, 2013) screening
Hawick, Scotland

9 April – 14 June

Staging of Magic Mirror

With photographs by Claude Cahun and the filmmaker

Jersey Museum and Art Gallery – staging of Magic Mirror in

‘A Life Defiant’ Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore

Jersey Museum and Art Gallery, Jersey, Channel Islands

Exhibition of You Be Mother (1990) and Milk and Glass (1993) in group show
curated by Ryan Siegan Smith and Ayaka Okutsu
24-30 January

Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

Screening and Q+A with the filmmaker

Q+A with filmmaker

Screening of Magic Mirror

JW3, 341-351 Finchley Road, London NW3 6ET

Q+A with filmmaker and Helena Reckitt

Launch of LUX DVD of Magic Mirror (with commissioned essays by Helena Reckitt and Sarah Ibrahim)

Screening of Magic Mirror

Q+A with filmmaker

Presentation and screening of Fall In Frame (16mm, col, 19min  2009)

Organised by A Nos Amours

11am – 5pm JW3, 341-351 Finchley Road, London

Photomonitor

Interview with Anna McNay May 2014

On my photography and Magic Mirror

July 2014

Feature by Anna McNay

Screening of Magic Mirror

International Competition

Poetry Film, curated by Zata Kitowski

Celebrating the legacy of Dylan Thomas

Screening of You Be Mother

Laugharne Castle, Carmarthenshire, Wales

La Cinemateque de Toulouse

Screening of Magic Mirror

Cinemarges Film Festival,  Bordeaux

Screening of Magic Mirror

Screening of Magic Mirror curated by Erin Riley-Lopez

Freedman Gallery, Albright College

Reading, PA, USA

On-line  Interview with Elisa Adami and Alessandra Ferrini   Part 1 
On-line  Interview with Elisa Adami and Alessandra Ferrini   Part 2

Screening of Magic Mirror, curated by Kim Knowles, presented by LUX

Filmhouse Edinburgh

Dance Pavillion, Bournemouth, curated by Selina Robertson, presented by LUX
2.30pm + 7.45pm
 

MNEMOSCAPE Event
Autobiography and the Archive
‘Why Colonel Bunny Was Killed’ 27min, 2010, Miranda Pennell
‘1942 (Poznan), 1996-2002, 6min, Uriel Orlow
‘Stages Of Mourning’, 17inb, 2004, Sarah Pucill
Q+A with Miranda Pennell and Sarah Pucill
Chaired by Elisa Adami and ALessandra Ferrini (Mnemoscape)

London Art Fair
Panel discussion on ‘The Muse’
with Sue Steward and Antony Penrose
Screening of Magic Mirror tbc

Screening of Magic Mirror 2.30PM
Further Screening times tbc

Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany

Part of Sie Selbst Nackt 

Curated by Christine Ruffert

Presented by LUX

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

8 December, 12.30pm.

Presented by LUX

Screening of Magic Mirror, 16mm, b/w, 75min, 2013

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

7 December, Saturday 12.30pm

Presented by LUX

Phantom Rhapsody (16mm, b/w 19min, 2010)

Assembly: A Survey of Recent Artists Film and Video in Britain 2008-2013

Tate Britain, Clore Auditorium

Screening of Magic Mirror (75min, 2013)

Presented by LUX

Curated by Kim Knowles

Union Theatre, Milwaukee, USA

Cork Film Festival, 11.30AM

Presented by LUX
Artist will present the screening

Institute Of Contemporary Arts, London,  6.45PM

Presented by LUX
Q+A with Gavin James Bower,
consecutive screening dates tbc

Pavillion Dance, Bournemouth, curated by Selina Robertson

16mm, b/w, 75 mins, Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium
Q + A with Filmmaker and David Campany

Brighton Museum and Art Galleries
Organised by curators and critics of the University of Sussex

Curated by Cesar Ballester

b/w, 16mm, 17min (2000)
The Horse Hospital, curated by Selina Robertson and Sarah Wood as part of ‘Scala Beyond’

You Be Mother( 1990) + Fall In Frame (2009)

Programme ‘Aesthetic Queeries’ curated by Treasa OBrien, Open City Docs Festival

Milton Keynes Gallery
Curated by Inheritance Projects

With Lucy Reynolds on forthcoming 16mm b/w film Magic Mirror (2012)

Re-enactment as Cathartic Ritual in Stages Of Mourning’ (2004)

Installation of the film Phantom Rhapsody  (16mm, b/w, 17min, 2010) at Schwarz Gallery in a group show, ‘Powerless Structures’, curated by Ismail Erbil

Curated by Elinor Cleghorn
Films: Mirrored Measure, Swollen Stigma, Cast, Fall In Frame, Phantom Rhapsody. Q+A between the filmmaker and Dr M Sprio. More details: BFI Southbank

Regarding the influence of the filmmaker Maya Deren. Films by Jayne Parker, Daria Martin and Sarah Pucill. More details: BFI Southbank

‘Phantom Rhapsody’ curated by Cherry Kino

Curated by Laura Kloss
Retrospective screening: Stages Of Mourning, Taking My Skin, Blind Light. Q+A with filmmaker and Dr M Sprio. HMV Curzon Cinema, Wimbledon

‘Sisterhood is Powerful’ curated by Lucy Van De Wiel. Including work by Margarethe Van Trotta, Barbara Hammer, Joan Braderman, Sarah Pucill

‘A Cinema of Attractions’ by Sebastien Ronceray
Review of the Lux DVD Compilation ‘Sarah Pucill Films 1990-2010′

Film Screening of films including Phantom Rhapsody with Q+A PSL [Project Space Leeds], Whitehall Waterfront, 2 Riverside Way, Leeds LS1 4EH

Screening of Phantom Rhapsody, 20min, 2010, 16mm, b+w.
3.45pm in Cinema 1

Screening of Phantom Rhapsody, Cast, Mirrored Measure, Milk and Glass All 16mm. 66 E 4th Street, New York NY 10003. More info
Those Deep Approaches (text) by Cherry Smyth for the LUX DVD Booklet. Phantom Rhapsody: Smoke, Mirrors and the Spell of Cinema (text) by Lucy Reynolds for the LUX DVD Booklet

Details to follow.

L’Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts. The filmmaker will be present for a discussion following the screening and at 8.30pm at the art cinema L’Action Christine.

Launch Venues London, US, Canada, TBA

A screening of early films alongside a premiere of Phantom Rhapsody, (19min, b/w 2010) as well as a film by Maya Deren. The filmmaker will be in conversation with Lucy Reynolds who alongside Cherry Smyth and Margherita Sprio contributed an essay to the DVD booklet. Visit website for more information

22 January to 27 March – De La Warr Pavilion – Bexhill-on-Sea.
Curated by Jane Won and David Curtis. An exhibition of portraits made in moving image with works by Jordan Baseman, Richard Billingham, Candice Breitz, Duncan Campbell, Willie Doherty, Tracey Emin, Carl Freeman, Gilbert & George, Peter Gidal, Robert Mapplethorpe, Rebecca Marshall, Stuart Marshall, Julian Opie, Sarah Pucill, Marty St James and Ann Wilson, Georgina Starr, Guy Sherwin, Margaret Tait, Fiona Tan, Gillian Wearing, Andy Warhol, William Wegman and Sam Taylor-Wood. Visit website for more information

‘Your head dissolved into thin air’ at the Sainsbury Art Centre, Norwich, alongside films by Lucy Skaer and Ursular Mayer, selected from the LUX Collection by Ben Cook

22min, 2007, Kwadrat, Adalbertstr 20, D-10997 Berlin.
Curated by Jennifer Oellerich.

6min, 1995, Tate Modern, London.
Curated by Vivienne Dick as part of her film retrospective.

Swollen Stigma, Cast, Stages of Mourning, Phantom Rhapsody’ by Gloria Morano,
La Furia Umana No 6 Read article

LoBE Art, LoBe Gallery, Scherer Strasse 7, 13347 Berlin, Germany.
Curated by Olivia Reynolds.

Interview on the making of ‘Phantom Rhapsody’, Sequence Magazine, Issue 1, ed Simon Payne, published by no,w.here. Read interview.

The haptic gaze in the films of Sarah Pucill’ by Gloria Morano, La Furia Umana No 5 Read text

16mm film, 95mins
Funded by Arts Council of England as part of a retrospective Screening of Sarah Pucill’s films (on 16mm) curated by Laura Kloss. The filmmaker will be in discussion with Dr Margherita Sprio at The Book Club, 100 Leonard Street EC2A 4RH

(16mm, 22 mins 2009) at Tate Modern curated by Maxa Zoller and www.no-w-here.org.uk. Tate Modern, 11am to 12noon: Free.

With Adriana Cerne, to be chaired by Dr Margherita Sprio
The Freud Museum, London, 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, NW3 5SX

Curated by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler.The filmmaker will be in dialogue with Dr Margarita Sprio (University of Essex). no.w.here, First Floor, 316-318 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 OAG – see website for more info

Festival runs from 7-18th October at various venues. See website for more info

See Light Cone website for more info

Cinecyle, 129 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario

Two evenings at Anthology Film Archives, Q+A with Dr Margherita Sprioover at Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003

MassArt Film Society, Massachusetts College of Art Film Department, Screening Room 1, 621 Huttington Ave, Boston MA 021115

A retrospective of Sarah Pucill’s films as part of a joint collaboration between LA Filmforum and Echo Park Film Center at Echo Park Film Center, Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd), Los Angeles, CA 90026

AIR Gallery, 111 Front Street, No228, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Sarah Pucill will give a presentation of her work in general with clips as part of the conference which will be followed by a screening of her new film Fall In Frame, 16mm, 18mins (Funded by the Arts Council) in the evening. At the University of Bedforshire, Park Square, Luton.

Nov-Dec 08 – Feature on Sarah Pucill’s films and photographs
View hardcover copy
Read article online

Staging of the film Phantom Rhapsody, 16mm, b/w, 17min, 2010.

June 13th – August 20th