Sarah Pucill PLEASE NOTE: FOR FULL UP-TODATE DETAILS OF ‘EVENTS’ CHECK THE ‘EVENTS ARCHIVE’.
C u r r I c u l u m V i t a e
Teaching
2005 to date: External Examiner Professional Doctorate Fine Art, University of East London
2000 to date: Reader, University of Westminster
Education
2014 PhD by Publication University of Westminster ‘Materiality, Mourning and the feminine’.
1988-90 MA Fine Art The Slade, University College London
Screenings and Exhibitions
2024 Screening of ‘Magic Mirror’ at Cambridge University, Q+A with Diarmuid Hester and Ciaran Hervas.
2024. Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art Gallery, Screening of ‘Double Exposure’, (27min, digital+16mm 2023). Introduction and Q+A with Helena Reckitt.
2023 Premier of ‘Double Exposure’ (27min, digital+16mm, 2023) at Frankfurt International Experimental Film Festival. The film was shown alongside ‘Cast'(2000) and ‘Stages of Mourning’ (2004).
2023 I”ll Be Your Mirror ‘- Vortic Online Exhibition Curated by Beth Greenacre, 17 April – 9 July
2023 ‘Milk’ Exhibition at Wellcome Institute, London, Installation of ‘Backcomb’ (16mm, 6min, 1995)
2022 Screening and Discussion of Eye Cut at Danielle Arnaud Gallery, with Helen de Witt, December.
2022 Confessions to the Mirror staged in “Under the Skin”, Kunsthal Museum, May-Aug, Rotterdam.
2022 Tour of Magic Mirror; London (Lexi Cinema, Marseille (L’Actoral), Paris (La Braquage), Café des Images,Herouville Staint-Clair, France, Washington DC Museum Art Gallery.
2021 Premier of Eye Cut, London Film Festival, following screenings at Jeu de Paume.
2021 Toronto Women Art Film Festival Best Experimental Film 2021. London New Wave Film Festival, Best Experimental Film.
2021 LUX Blu Ray Launch of Confessions to the Mirror (2016) as online screening and Panel Discussion with writer/curator Laura Guy, Writer/Festival Director Maxa Zoller and Writer Lucy Reynolds.
2019 Confessions to the Mirror staged in “Under the Skin”, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen Oct2019-March 2020.
2019-20 Ottawa Art Gallery, “Garden Self Portraits” 2019, Film Installation in “Face à Claude Cahun Et Marcel Moore”, curated by Michelle Gewurtz.
2018 UCL Art Museum, Screening of Confessions To The Mirror.
2017 Phantom Rhapsody staged in separate room at Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 13 June – 20 August.2017 Oslo Cinemateque, Art Museum, Screening of Confessions To The Mirror.
2017 National Portrait Gallery, Screening and Q+A as part of the Exhibition Claude Cahun and Gillian Wearing, March, Screening of Confessions To The Mirror
2017 Close-Up Cinema, February, Screening Magic Miiror and Confessions To The Mirror
2015 Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea. Staged exhibition of Magic Mirror in ‘Radical Gestures: Uncanny Feminism’, curated by Bae Myung Ji
2015 Screening St Brelades Bay Church Hall, Jersey, organised by LGBT Liberate Group Magic Mirror
2014 The Nunnery Gallery staged exhibition with photographs of Magic Mirror 17 April 14 June
2015 Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nantes as part of an exhibition of Claude Cahun’s work to celebrate 60 years since her death Magic Mirror
2014 JW3, LUX DVD launch screening, Q+A with Helena Reckitt Magic Mirror
2014 Edinburgh Film House, Magic Mirror
2014 Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris Magic Mirror
2014 Friedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, US Magic Mirror
2014 London Art Fair Magic Mirror
2014 La Cinemateque de Toulouse Magic Mirror
2014 Dance Pavillion, Bournemouth, curted by Selina Robertson February, Magic Mirror
2014 Paula Mendersohn Becker Museum, Self Portrait, curated by Christine Ruggert Magic Mirror
2013 Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Magic Mirror
2013 Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Q+A Gavin Bower, Magic Mirror (3 nights)
2013 Union Theatre, Milhaukee Magic Mirror
2013 Cinematek Oslo, ‘The Dream That Kicks’, curated by Greg Pope Magic Mirror
2013 Glasgow Film Theatre, curated by Carolyn Mills, Magic Mirror
2013 Tate Modern Premiere, curated by Stuart Comer, Magic Mirror
2012 Experimental Cinema Week of Madrid, curated by Cesar Ballester, Full Retrospective
2012 Parasol Unit, London Curated by Gil Leung, LUX You Be Mother, Milk and Glass, Phantom Rhapsody
2011 Leeds Project Space, Evening screening, Programmer Zoe Sawyer
2011 BFI Southbank, Retrospective Screening, Maya Deren Season (October)
2011 Moving Image South, Curzon Cinema, Wimbledon, curated by Laura Kloss
2011 Millennium Film, New York, ‘Personal Cinema Series’ curated by Howard Guttenplan
2011 Image-Movement, Berlin, selection of films European premier of Phantom Rhapsody
2011 L’ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts, Paris, Retrospective Screening
2011 L’action Christine cinema, Paris (LightCone/Scratch event), Retrospective Screening
2011 BFI Southbank, London Retrospective Screening (February)
2010 The Book Club, Retrospective Screening curated by Laura Kloss
2010 Screening and Discussion Freud Museum
2010 Light Reading’ Series 9, NO.W.HERE Lab, London, curated by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler
2009 Pleasure Dome, Toronto
2009 Mass Art Film Society, Boston
2009 A.I.R. Gallery, New York
2009 Anthology Film Archives, New York
2009 LA Filmforum/Echo Film Park Center, (joint screening), LA
2008 The Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle Upon Tyne
2008 Stages of Mourning, curated by Midori Yoshimoto, Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon
2007 The Millennium Film Workshop, NY
2007 ‘The Subjective Camera’ Series, Greenwich Picture House, London
2006 The Millennium Film Workshop, NY
2006 Greenwich Picture House, London
2006 ‘Light Reading’ Series 4, NO.W.HERE Lab, London, curated by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler
2002 291 Gallery, London, curated by Lisa Jensen
2000 LUX, London, part of DNET Festival of Electronic & Digital Art
1998 Tate Britain, curated by Gary Thomas
1998 LUX cinema, London
Textual Publications
2025. Artist in dialogue text in Tate St Ives Catalogue for the exhibition of Surrealist artist Ithel Colquhoun.
2024. ‘Narcissus’ (bw print from neg, 2013) photograph from the ‘Magic Mirror’ sereis, with a short text to be published in “Mirror Mirror- The Reflective Surface in Contemporary Art’, Editor Michael Petry, publisher Thames and Hudson.
2024. ‘Untitled II’ (bw print from neg, 2002) from the film the ‘Stages of Mourning Series’, with a short text published in ‘Photography; A Queer History’, edited by Dr Theo Gordon, + Dr Flora Dunster, Ilex Press.
“2021. “Eruption, rupture, suture and disruption”, by Sarah Pucill on two films by Sandra Lahire, “Arrows “(1984) and “Night dances” (1995). In ‘Sandra Lahire Cahier’ book, edited by Maria Palacios Cruz and Charlotte Proctor, to accompany a screening at Courtisane Film Festival October 2021.
2021 “A Dialogue with Claude Cahun: Between Writing, Photography and Film in Magic Mirror and Confessions to the Mirror”, chapter by Sarah Pucill in Cinematic Intermedialities, published by Edinburgh University Press, Ed Marion Schmid and Kim Knowles.
2018 “Coming to Life and Intermediality in the tableaux vivants in Magic Mirror and Confessions To The Mirror “chapter by Sarah Pucill. In Experimental Film and Artists’ Moving Image Series: Experimental and Expanded Animation, Editors, Nicky Hamlyn, Vicky Smith, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
2016 MIRAJ Journal, ‘The Women at the London Filmmakers Co-op: 1980s+90s’, Round table discussion Issue 4, 1+2.
Selected group screenings
2015 La Mutinerie, Paris ‘Film Cycle Series’ curated by Katja Gorska Phantom Rhapsody + Swollen Stigma
2015 Visiona Film Festival, Huesca, Spain Stages Of Mourning
2014 Whitechapel Gallery, Stages Of Mourning
2014 Arsenale Institute for Film and Video Art Mirrored Measure
2013 ‘Assembly: A Survey of Recent Artists; Film and Video in Britain 2008-13’ Tate Britain Phantom Rhapsody
2013 Arsenale, Institute for Film and Video Art Phantom Rhapsody
2013 New York Filmmakers Co-Op, Milk and Glass
2012 Kino Wiehrebahnhof, Freiberg, programme curated by Kim Knowles Phantom Rhapsody
2012 Milton Keynes Gallery, part of Oliver Plender exhibition Blind Light
2012 LightCone, Pompidou Centre, Paris You Be Mother, Cast
2011 Xcentric Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona Taking My Skin
2011 BFI Southbank panel discussion and screening with Jayne Parker and Daria Martin Screening of Cast (16mm bw, 20min)
2011 Moving Portrait, De La Warr Pavillion, You Be Mother
2010 ‘Your Head Dissolved Into Thin Air’, curated by Ben Cook from the LUX collection, Sainsburies Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich. Phantom Rhapsody
2010 Vivienne Dick Retrospective, Tate Modern, curated by Vivienne Dick, Backcomb
2010 Vivienne Dick Retrospective, Light Industry (NY), curated by Vivienne Dick, Backcomb
2010 ‘Film without Film’, Tate Modern, curated by no-w-here and Maxa Zoller, Blind Light
2010 ‘The Other’, Rencentre de Sophie, Nantes, France Taking My Skin, Stages of Mourning
2010 ‘Ruffled Galaxies’, Infernoesques, curated by Jennifer Oellerich, Berlin Blind Light
2010 LoBe Art, Berlin, curated by Olivia Reynolds Blind Light
2009 Light Cone, panel selection of new acquisitions Fall In Frame
2009 The Experimental Film Club, Dublin curated by Donal Foreman Stages Of Mourning
2008 Kino Arsenal, Berlin, curated screening ‘Public/Private: spaces’ Backcomb
2008 ArtSway Open 2008 Blind Light
2008 Aurora Media Arts Festival, Norwich Blind Light
2008 ‘Divided Light’, Louise Blouin Foundation, curated by Ben Austin Blind Light
2008 ‘Multichannel’, Artsway curated by Peter Bonnell Taking My Skin
2008 New York Filmmakers Co-Op Screening, curated by Caroline Koebel, Millennium, NY Backcomb
2008 ‘Mother Cuts: Experiments in Film, Video & Photography’, curated by Siona Wilson, New Jersey University Gallery Taking My Skin
2008 Whitechapel Gallery Film Circus Film Weekend curated by Ian White You Be Mother
2008 ‘Live 8’, curated by Vivienne Dick, Galway, Ireland Blind Light, You Be Mother
2008 Stills Gallery, Edinburgh You Be Mother
2007 ‘Light Cone 25th Anniversary’, panel selection of new acquisitions, l’Institute Finlandais & Cinema Quartier Latin selection of films including Taking My Skin
2007 ‘Intervention’, curated by Richard Ducker, Fieldgate Gallery Taking My Skin
2006 ‘Unfixed POV’, curated by Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe, New York Film-Makers Co-op You Be Mother
2007 ‘PULSAR’ Caracas Contemporary Art Museum and touring Stages of Mourning
‘Archetypes’, curated by Karen Mirza and Cate Shindler, Transit Space Swollen Stigma
2008 The Collective Unconscious, curated programme, New York Filmmakers Coop You Be Mother
2005 ‘Wake’, London Gallery West Stages of Mourning, Swollen Stigma, Cast
2005 ‘Take 291’, curated by Charlie Phillips, 291 Gallery Stages of Mourning
2004 ‘Masquerade’, curated by Kate Newton, Photofusion Gallery, London Stages of Mourning
2004 ‘A Century of Film and Video Artists’, curated by David Curtis, Tate Britain You Be Mother
2004 ‘Experiments of Moving Image 1970-2000’, curated by Jackie Hatfield & Steven Littman, Old Lumiere Cinema, London (5 films)
2003 ‘Telling Tales’, curated by Karen Alexander, Serpentine Gallery You Be Mother
2003 ‘The Hair Show’, curated by M Farquhar and P Atherton, Tablet Gallery, London Backcomb
2003 ‘The UK/Canadian Video Exchange’, curated by Cate Elwes, South London Gallery; TRANZ<>TECH 2003, Toronto Backcomb
2000 ‘Girl’, Walsall New Art Gallery, curated by Angela Kingston Backcomb
1999 ‘Sweetie’ Female Identity in British Video, curated by Cristiana Perrella and Maria Rosa Sossai, British School at Rome Backcomb
1998 ‘Dragged: Sarah Pucill and Phil Sayers’, Real Gallery, New York Swollen Stigma
1996 ‘Living on Air’, screening curated by S Lahire, Whitechapel Gallery, London Mirrored Measure
1995 ‘Hiding Behind the Sofa,’ Womens Film and Video, curated by Joanna Montgomery, Prema Arts Centre, Gloucester. You Be Mother
1994 ‘Light’ curated by David Curtis, Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art. Milk and Glass
1993 ‘Hygiene + Hysteria’, curated by Sarah Turner & Ian Rashid, NFT London & Europe Milk and Glass
1992 ‘Cutting Edge’, curated by C Brown and J Hoole, Barbican Gallery, London You Be Mother
1991 ‘The Archeology of Silence’, curated by C Harley and M Oechsler, st London studios, photographs
1990 ‘Exiled’, curated by Moira Sweeney, ICA, London and European touring You Be Mother
1990 ‘Against the Grain’, Camerawork, London Photographs from You Be Mother Series
1990 ‘The Woman in My Life’, Acton Community Arts Workshop, London Photographs from You Be Mother Series
1989 ‘New Contemporaries’, ICA, London You Be Mother
Conferences/Panels
2015 Whitechapel Art Gallery Conference on Artist Moving Image Practice in Britain From 1990 to today, Paper given by Lucy Reynolds on work of Sandra Lahire, Jayne Parker and Sarah Pucill.
2015 Screening of Magic Mirror as part of ‘Seminar Series on Self Representation in Film’ at Birkbeck College, Q+A with Laura Mulvey, organised by Muriel Temple.
2014 London Art Fair ‘The Muse’ panel discussion with Anthony Penrose and Sue Steward, screening Magic Mirror
2014 Autobiography and the Archive, with M Pennell A Ferrini, E Adami, Stages Of Mourning
2012 Contemporary Queer Artistic Practice in the UK, Brighton Museum, University of Sussex
2012 Family Ties Conference, University of London, by Sally Waterman, Stages Of Mourning
2010 ‘Surrealism Laid Bare’, West Dean College, West Sussex, screening Phantom Rhapsody
2009 ‘Circularity, Narrative and Aesthetic Translation: A Practice Based Research Symposium’, University of Bedfordshire, invited by Joanna Callahan, presentation on my films.
2008 ‘Trauma and The Sublime’ conference organised by Stephen Vine, Swansea University, presentation of Blind Light
2008 ‘Interrogating Trauma’, conference, Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Screening of Stages Of Mourning
2008 ‘The Life of the Mourner’s Dance’, organised by Dorian Grey, Queen Mary University. Screening of Stages Of Mourning
2007 MAMSIE ‘Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities, and Ethics’ conference, Birkbeck Univeristy Taking My Skin
2004 College Art Association (CAA) Art History Conference, Atlanta, USA Conference Panel ‘The Autobiographic in Women’s Art Practice’ Stages of Mourning
Film Festivals
2024. ‘Double Exposure’ Best Experimental Film: Toronto Women FIlm Festival.
2023. Frankfurt Experimental Film Festival Première: Double Exposure (27min, 16mm+Digital)
2022. Toronto Women’s Film Festival: Best Experimental Film: Eye Cut.
2022. London New Wave FF,: Best Experimental film: Eye Cut.
2021. London Film Festival, Première Eye Cut (2021)
2019 Dortmund International Women’s Film Festival, Confessions To The Mirror
2017 Creteil International Women’s Film Festival Paris, Confessions To The Mirror
2017. Alchemy Film Festival, Confessions To The Mirror
2016 London Film Festival, BFI Southbank , Confessions To The Mirror
2015 Alchemy Film Festival Magic Mirror
2015 Scottish Queer International Film Festival Swollen Sitgma
2014 Pink Screens Film Festival, Brussels Magic Mirror
2014 BAGDAM Espace Lesbien, Toulouse Magic Mirror
2014 New Media Art Festival, Seoul, South Korea Magic Mirror
2013 Cork International Film Festival Magic Mirror
2013 Cinemarges Film Festival, Bordeaux, Magic Mirror
2012 Imagem-Contato, San Paulo, Brazil Fall In Frame, You Be Mother
2012 Open City Docs, ICA, ‘Aesthetic Queeries’ curated by Treasa O’Brien Stages Of Mourning
2011 Edinburgh International Film Festival Phantom Rhapsody
2009 Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema Fall In Frame
2009 International Festival of Erotic Animation, Brazil Backcomb
2009 Directors Lounge- Berlin International Film Festival Taking My Skin
2009 Videoforms, France Blind Light
2009 Ann Arbor Film Festival Backcomb
2008 Osnabruck European Media Art Festival Blind Light
2008 Aurora Film Festival Blind Light
2008 Ann Arbor Film Festival, US Taking My Skin
2007 Osnabruck European Media Art Festival Taking My Skin
2007 Images Festival of Film & Video, Toronto Taking My Skin
2006 Cork Film Festival, Ireland Taking My Skin
2006 Osnabruck Film Festival Taking My Skin
2005 Rencentres Internationales Paris-Berlin Stages of Mourning
2005 The Magic Lantern Dream Cinema, Ciné Lumière Institute Français, London You Be Mother
2005 London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Stages of Mourning
2004 Experiments of Moving image 1970-2000, curated by Jackie Hatfield & Steve Littman, London
2004 Feminale, Cologne, Germany (five films)
2004 Kassel Documentary Film Festival, Germany Stages of Mourning
2000 Cinenova Festival, The Lux, London Cast
2000 London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Cast
1998 London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Swollen Stigma
1998 Visibilia, Bologna, Italy Swollen Stigma
1998 Pandemonium Moving Image Art Festival, The Lux, London Swollen Stigma
1998 Feminale, Cologne, Germany Swollen Stigma
1998 Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto Swollen Stigma
1998 Montreal Image and Nation International Queer Film and Video Festival, Montréal Swollen Stigma
1998 Impakt Media Art Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands Mirrored Measure
1998 International Video Festival, Lisbon, Portugal Swollen Stigma
1996 Pandemonium Moving Image Art Festival, ICA, London Mirrored Measure
1996 Melbourne International Film Festival Mirrored Measure
1996 Impakt Media Art Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands Mirrored Measure
1996 Brisbane International Film Festival Mirrored Measure
1996 New Screen 5, The Lux, London Milk and Glass
1996 London Electronic Arts Film and Video Open, Toynbee Hall, London Mirrored Measure
1995 London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Milk and Glass
1995 MIX New York Film Festival Milk and Glass
1995 Toronto Short Film Festival, Canada You Be Mother
1995 ‘ICA Biennial of Independent Film and Video Art’, London You Be Mother
1995 Feminale, Cologne, Germany Backcomb
1995 Ankara Short Film Festival Backcomb
1995 Montreal Image and Nation International Queer Film and Video Festival You Be Mother
1995 Montreal Festival of New Cinema and New Media You Be Mother
1994 Cork International Film Festival You Be Mother
1994 Atlanta Short Film and Video Festival You Be Mother
1994 Norwegian Short Film Festival You Be Mother
1994 Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animation Film You Be Mother
1994 Tampere Short Film Festival, Finland You Be Mother
1993 European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany Milk and Glass
1993 London Film Festival Milk and Glass
1993 British Short Film Festival, Barbican, London Milk and Glass
1993 Edinburgh Short Film Festival, Scotland Milk and Glass
1993 Rencontres Internationales [Artists Film Festival], Paris You Be Mother
1991 Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany You Be Mother
1990 London Film Festival You Be Mother
1990 British Short Film Festival, Barbican, London You Be Mother
1990 European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany You Be Mother
1990 Rencontres Internationales [Artists Film Festival], Paris You Be Mother
Collaborations
2008 ‘Cat House Camp’ Performace and Installation with Deej Fabyc (and Oreet Ashery, Hugo Glendinning, Hester Reeve), Toynbee Hall, London
2007 Just Like All the Rest, 7 min, video by Marcia Farquhar and Sarah Pucill. Part of 12-Shooters, performed and directed by Marcia Farquhar, with 11 other filmmakers (including Andrew Kotting, Uriel Orlow, Dryden Goodwin, Saskia Olde Wolbers) South London Gallery premiere which toured UK (International tour 2008)
Selected bibliography
2016 ‘Feminisms, Mirrors: Claude Cahun and Sarah Pucill – a dialogue’, by Dr M Sprio, MIRAJ Magazine, Issue 4, 2+1.
2015 ‘Mattuschka and Pucill: These Films Cannot Be Proved’ OEI Magazine, by Caroline Koebel, on Mirrored Measure.
2015 Review of Magic Mirror Exhbition at The Nunnery Gallery by Martin Comer, Time Out Magazine, April 2015.
2015 Review of Magic Mirror the film at ‘Magic Mirriror: Sarah Pucill and Claude Cahun’ at The Nunnery Gallery, by Mark Harris in ‘Art Monthly’ June Issue No387
2015 Review of Magic Mirror the film at ‘Magic Mirriror: Sarah Pucill and Claude Cahun’ at The Nunnery Gallery, by Frances Morgan in ‘Sight and Sound’ Magazine, April Issue.
2014 ‘Between Mirrors’, Helena Reckitt, LUX DVD Magic Mirror
2014 ‘Stepping Aside To Enter’, Sarah Ibrahim, LUX DVD Magic Mirror
2014 ‘Voluptu’ French On-line Fashion Magazine, review and photograph Melissa Smith, January
2013 ‘Tenmag’ Spanish Fashion Magazine, photographs and review of Magic Mirror by Ana Himes.
2013 ‘Mnemoscape’ Interview with A Ferrini and E Adami on Magic Mirror.
2011 Review of my films and Lux DVD, Sebastien Ronceray, ‘BREF’ Magazine, France
2011 ‘A Hisorical Overview of Sarah Pucill’s Films’ Dr Marherita Sprio, LUX DVD Booklet
2011 ‘Those Deep Approaches’, Cherry Smyth, LUX DVD Booklet
2011 ‘Phantom Rhapsody: Smoke, Mirrors and the Spell of Cinema’, Lucy Reynolds,LUX DVD Booklet.
2010 ‘Sarah Pucill: Female Presence’, La Furia Umana No5, (on-line Magazine), pp 48-52 by Gloria Morano (in French)
2010 ‘Sarah Pucill 2: Theatre of Female Point of View’,’ La Furia Umana’ No 6, (on-line Magazine), by Gloria Morano (in Italian).
2008 ‘Into the Spotlight’, New York Arts Magazine, vol.13, no.11/12, pp.100-1
2008 Phillina Sun, Live @ No.8, review of film programme You Be Mother, online
2007 ‘Transitions and Transgression: The British avant-garde and methods of opposition, 1985-1994, Gareth Buckell, Filmwaves Magazine, issue 34 Autumn 2007, pp.34-39 (p.39)
2007 ‘Film Frame to Skin Cell’, Niamh McDonnell, Vertigo Magazine, Vol 3 No 5 Spring (ISNN 0968 7904), pp60-61
2006 ‘Stop Frame Motion in Stages of Mourning’, LUX-on-line by Vicky Smith
2006 Chroma, Issue 4, Spring, pp.18-19 (illus.)
2006 ‘Afterword’, Claude Cahun: a sensual politics of photography, Gen Doy, I B Tauris, pp 146
2005 ‘Accumulation in Stages of Mourning’’ Lux-on-line, by Naomi Salaman
2004 ‘Sarah Pucill’, LUX-on-line, essay by Helena Blaker
2004 ‘Bold Types’, Pluk, Issue 18, May/June, p.24
2000 Cherry Smyth, Art Monthly, July-August
2000 Helen De Witt, Make Magazine, March-May
1999 ‘Little Deaths’, Sandra Lahire, MAKE Magazine, issue 83, March-May
1998 ‘The Fairies Banquet’, Sandra Lahire, Coil, Issue 7 (ISBN 901540 03 0)
1996 ‘Sarah Pucill: Backcomb’, Chris Darke, London Production Fund
1994 ‘European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruk’, Helen Sloan, Variant Magazine,
1991 You Be Mother, Malcolm Cook, Variant Magazine, Autumn, p.48
1990 Exiled, programme, Film & Video Umbrella, London
1990 ‘The Politics of Representation’, Julian Rodriguez, The British Journal of Photography, 12 July p3
1990 ‘Against the grain?’, The British Journal of Photography, 12 July
1990 ‘The Woman in My Life’, Sue Hubbard, Time Out, March
1990 ‘The Woman in My Life: Photography of Women’, (You Be Mother photograph front cover) Mica Nava, Feminist Review, no.36, Autumn, pp. 42-51, illus. p.47 (ISSN 0141 7789)
1990 The Guardian, 6 June 1990
1990 ‘Sarah Pucill’, Women’s Art magazine, (You Be Mother photograph front cover), December, p.23
Publications
2016 MIRAJ Journal, ‘The Women at the London Filmmakers Co-op: 1980s+90s’, Round table discussion Issue 4, 1+2.
2014 Photomonitor on-line phhotography mag, interview on Magic Mirror with film stills by Anna McNay
2014 ‘Diva’ Magazine, text on Magic Mirror with film stills by Anna McNay
2012 Photographs in ‘Pasion Magazine’, Egypt, with a photo-shoot by K Djeghalian in hommage to my photographs.
2012 Interview with Lucy Reynolds on Magic Mirror for ‘Printed Project ‘ (Irish Arts Journal) with photographs (cover), Spring 2012
2012 Re-print of Interview with Lucy Reynolds Magic Mirror for ‘Printed Project’ with new photographs, December, Vertigo on-line Magazine, Issue 31, Winter ‘At Least I Shall Know My Face’.
2011 Interview for BFI Web Archive, a documentary on Maya Deren for BFI National Archive.
2011 LUX DVD and Booklet; essays by Lucy Reynolds, Cherry Smyth and Margherita Sprio.
2010 Interview with Gloria Morano, ‘La Furia Umana’, on-line magazine (http://www.lafuriaumana.it/),
2010 Interview with Margherita Sprio + stills, Sequence, published by no-w-here, ed Simon Payne.
2010 Still Images from Stages Of Mourning, Midland Arts Centre Publication, ed Laura Guy
2009 ‘Sarah Pucill, Just Like All The Rest’, Marcia Farquhar, in Marcia Farquhar’s 12 Shooters’ J Maizlish (ed.), London: Live Art Develoopment Agency, pp 36-42 (ISBN 978 0 9546040 8 0)
2007 A History of Artist’s Film and Video in Britain, 1897-2004, David Curtis, BFI, Uni Cal Press (ISBN 1 84457 096 7)
2005 Wake, exhib. leaflet, text by Angela Kingston
2004 ‘Stages of Mourning’, Sarah Pucill, in Experiments in Moving Image, Jackie Hatfield (ed.), London, EpiGraph Publications (ISBN 1 902458 06 0)
2003 ‘The Touching Camera: The body in film in the films of Nina Danino, Jo Ann Kaplan and Sarah Pucill’, Susanna Poole in New Frontiers Of the Body: Essays on the Body in Representation, Silvana Carotenuto and Annamaria Morelli (eds.), London, Aedipus (ISBN 88 7341 043X)
2003 Masquerade: Women’s Contemporary Portrait Photography, Kate Newton and Christine Rolph (eds.), Cardiff, UK, ffotogallery (illus.), pp 102-105 Vol 3 No 5 Spring (ISNN 0968 7904), pp60-61 (ISBN 1 872771 36 X)
2003 The UK/Canadian Video Exchange, The Canada Council for the Arts
2000 DNet information, The Lux, London
2001 ‘Women’s Artists’ Diary, Nicky Coutts, London, The Women’s Press (illus.)
1999 ‘Sweetie: Identità femminile nel video britannico’, Maria Rosa (ed.), The British School at Rome (ISBN 888210 1428)
1998 ‘Dragged’, text by Cherry Smyth, New York, Real Gallery
1998 Entre les miroirs’, Sigrid Schade, in Pour urne Ecologie des Media: Art Cinéma Vidéo Ordinateur, Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki (eds.), Paris, Troisiémes Recontres Internationales, pp. 64-74 (ISBN 2 95082922 8)
1997 ‘The Raw and The Cooked: Fourth ICA Biennial of Independent Film and Video’, Ruby Rich and Chris Darke, London, ICA (ISBN1 900300 117)
1996 ‘The Art of Reflection’ in The Art of Reflection: 20th Century Women Portrait Artists, Marsha Meskimmon, London, Scarlett Press (ISBN 100231106874)
1996 ‘Pandemonium: The London Festival of Moving Images’, Pandemonium Festival, London
1996 ‘A Directory of British Film and Video Artists’, David Curtis (ed.), ACE, London (ISBN 1 86020 0036)*
1994 What She Wants: Women Artists Look at Men, Naomi Salaman (ed.), London, Verso (ISBN 10 0860916561)
1993 You be Mother, BFI video compilation, Wicked Women and Wayward Girls, Connoisseur Video
1991 ‘The Archeology of Silence,’ Monika Oechsler (ed.), Monika Oechsler, London (ISBN 09517997 03)
1989 ‘New Contemporaries’, Sacha Craddock, London, ICA (ISBN 0 9818556 0)
Selected writings and editorships
2015 ‘In Cahun’s Magic Mirror: A Conversation’, essay by Sarah Pucill in Claude Cahun/Sarah Pucill Exhibition Catologue, The Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts Trust
2009 ‘The Choice of Alas Poor Humpty’, Sarah Pucill, in Marcia Farquhar’s 12 Shooters’ J Maizlish (ed.), London: Live Art Develoopment Agency, pp43-45 (ISBN 978 0 9546040 8 0)
2006 ‘The “autoethnographic” in Chantal Akerman’s News From Home, and an Analysis of Almost Out by Jayne Parker, and Stages of Mourning’, in Expermintal Film and Video, Jackie Hatfield (ed.), London: John Libby, pp.83-92 (ISBN 0 86196 664 3)
2004 ‘Art-in-Sight’, Sarah Pucill (ed.) Filmwaves Magazine, Issue 24, no. 2
2004 ‘The Question of the Subject and the Autobiographic in Artists Moving Image Practice’, Sarah Pucill, Filmwaves Magazine, Issue 24, no. 2, pp.5-9 (ISSN 1460 4051)
2004 ‘Some thoughts on Sandra Lahire’s film Johnny Panic’, Sarah Pucill, in Experiments in Moving Image, Jackie Hatfield (ed.), London: EpiGraph Publications, pp.76-77 (ISBN 1 902458060)
2002 ‘Lady Lazarus and Johnny Panic’, Sarah Pucill, in Vertigo Magazine, Vol 2, No2, pp. 44-45 (ISSN 09068 7904)
TV/Radio Broadcasts
2020 Interview and clip of Magic Mirror in “Masquerades and Games – The Female Artists of Surrealism”, ARTE and ZDF TV documentary, directed by Maria Tappeiner.
2013 Resonance FM Half hour interview with Diana Mavrolean, ‘I’m ready for my Close-up’, on Magic Mirror
2009 Resonance FM ‘Daily Subverstions’ Interview with Amber Jacobs
1996 BSB TV Australia Mirrored Measure
1995 Carlton Television, UK Backcomb
1990 Granada TV, UK You Be Mother
Awards & Citations
2014 Arts Council Award for Confessions To The Mirror (16mm, col 70min)
2012 Arts Council Award for Post Production (LUX DVD and Digital Cinema Print) for Magic Mirror
2011 Arts Council Award for production of Magic Mirror (16mm b/w 70min)
2011 Nominated for the Jarman Award for recent films.
2009 Arts Council Award for Phantom Rhapsody
2008 Arts Council Award for Fall in Frame
2007 Arts Council and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Award for Blind Light
2007 Marion McMahon Award, Images Festival, Canada Taking My Skin
2007 Directors Citation, Black Maria Film Fesival Taking My Skin, Stages of Mourning
2006 Arts Council Award and AHRC award for Taking My Skin
2006 AHRC Dissemination Award –for the distibution and promotion of my films.
2003 AHRC Award for Stages of Mourning
1998 Arts Council Award for Cast
1996 Arts Council Award for Swollen Stigma
1996. Best Innovation Award, Atlanta Short Film Festival, USA Milk and Glass
1995 Best Innovation Award, Atlanta Short Film Festival, USA You Be Mother
1995 Arts Council Award for Mirrored Measure
1994 London Production Fund and Carlton Television Award for Backcomb
1992 Arts Council Award for Milk and Glass
1991 Best Experimental Film Award, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany You Be Mother
1990 Julian Sullivan Award (Awarded from the Slade) and Hull Time Based Arts Award for You Be Mother
Collections
LUX London
BFI Archive
Programme curator
2007 The Subjective Camera series, Greenwich Picture House, London
2003 The Subjective Camera, LUX, London
Distributors
LUX, Canyon Cinema (California), Light Cone (France)