Feature article to be published in MIRAJ (Moving Image Review Art Journal)

April 2025 by Ciaran Hervas on Pucill’s film ‘Double Exposure’ (16mm+Digital, 27min, 2023) and its relationship to her wider practice.

Still from ‘Double Exposure’ (2023).

Forthcoming Publication Dec 2025:

‘Experimental narrative film and women’s practices at the London Film-maker’s Co-operative’

Interviews compiled by Dr 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).

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, Helena Reckitt

Lis Rhodes, Helen de Witt.  

Publication Date Spring 2025

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
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