Milk and Glass, 1993

1993, 16mm, col, sound, 10min

In this film an interior landscape is scrutinised, and an apparent rational calm is revealed as suffocating. Milk and Glass is an evocative journey from surface to interior – a black-coated mirror, the hollow of a bowl, a cavernous throat; a brush demarcates a line of lip on a flat surface, a mouth doubles up with the bowl and is virtually spoon-fed till it chokes.

Best Innovation Award – Atlanta Short Film Festival 1996

Directed and produced:
Sarah Pucill
Funded:
Arts Council of England
Camera:
Stanislaw Was + Sarah Pucill
Edit & Sound:
Sarah Pucill
1993-94
European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Netherlands
London Film Festival
British Short Film Festival
Edinburgh Short Film Festival
Impakt, Festival for Experimental Art, Utrecht, Netherlands
Cork Film Festival
Feminale, Cologne, Germany
Rencontres Internationales, Paris
Hygiene + Hysteria’ curated Sarah Turner & Ian Rashid, NFT & Europe
Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Light’ curated by David Curtis.
1996
Atlanta Short Film Festival – Best Innovation Award 
1998
Lux, London (retrospective screening)
Tate Britain, Curated by Gary Thomas (retrospective screening) Q+A with Sandra Lahire.
2000
Lux, DNET Festival of Electronic & Digital Art
2002
291 Gallery, London, curated by Lisa Jensen (retrospective)
2006
Greenwich Picture House, London (retrospective)
2007
Millenium FIlm Workshop, NY (retrospective)
2008
The Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle Upon Tyne (retrospective)
2009
Anthology Film Archives, New York (retrospective)
LA FilmForum, LA (retrospective)
AIR Gallery, New York (retrospective)
2012
Madrid Experimental Film Festival (retrospective)
2016
No.w.here, London, Queering Love, Queering Hormones  Film Screening,  London
2016
Tate Modern, London ‘From Reel to Real: Women, Feminism and the London Film-makers Co-operative, Starr Cinema 23-25 September, curated by Maud Jacquin
2016
Anthology Film Archives, New York ‘From Reel to Real, curated by Maud Jacquin, December
2016
2022.   
6Dec       THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS.   (WAKING DREAMERS)
2022
May. Milk and Glass (16mm, 1993), in Bâk-Nih Audiovisuel Lab Ltd, at Taiwan Contemporary Cultural Lab
2023. 
ArtVerona Art Fair, Venice,  curated by Guilia Casalini at Biblioteca Civica di Verona, 6 October – 5 November
2024.       
European Media Arts Festival April
2024

13th Mar    Musée d’Art moderne, Le Havre, Francehttps://2024.shortfilms.org.uk/films/milk-and-glasshttps://2024.shortfilms.org.uk/films/milk-and-glass

ICA London, Short Film Festival,   https://2024.shortfilms.org.uk/films/milk-and-glass

2025.    Goldsmiths University.  LUX Book Launch    Framed in Reflection’: Experimental film and the subject/ive. Screening & panel Q&A  Organised and book Edited by Nina Danino.

2026.   October   Retro Screening Event at ‘Salle Des acacias’, Paris, curated by Braquage, Paris.