Sarah Pucill

Film artist Sarah Pucill’s work is distributed by LUX, London, and LightCone, Paris. Pucill also teaches at the University of Westminster. Central to her work is “a concern with mortality and the materiality of the filmmaking process.” Much of her work is situated in the restrictions of domestic spaces. Pucill has been making 16mm films since completing her MA at the Slade in 1990. Retrospectives of Pucills work were screened at Tate Britain, BFI Southbank, Anthology Film Archives (NY), Pleasure Dome (Toronto), Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and LA FilmForum.

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Swollen Stigma

Sarah Pucill, United Kingdom, 1998, 21’

Swollen Stigma is a visual, surrealistic narrative about a woman travelling both literally and psychically through several rooms. Memories, or fantasies, of another woman, fill her imagination. The film proposes lesbian imagery, and its shifting points of view jump between the protagonist, fantasy spaces, and her lover, making an internal world leak into what is external.