Sarah Pucill is a London-based film artist, who studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. Her work is distributed by LUX and LightCone, Paris. She is a Reader at University of Westminster. At the core of her practice is a concern with mortality and the materiality of the filmmaking process. Many of her films take place within the confines of domestic space. In her explorations of the animate and inanimate, her work probes a journey between mirror and surface.Her most recent film, Magic Mirror (2013), was funded by the Arts Council England and explores the relationship between word and image in Claude Cahun’s writing from her book Aveux Non Avenus (Disavowals) through a re-staging of her photographs. Part essay, part film poem, Magic Mirror explores the links between Cahun’s photographs and writings. The film premiered at Tate Modern in April 2013 and was shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.Phantom Rhapsody (2010) was screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, at Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts Superieure in Paris, and Millennium Film Workshop, New York. The film examines the appearance and disappearance of the phantom as it relates to the present/absent dynamic of visible lesbian sexuality in the canons of both cinema and art history.You Be Mother (1990), Pucill’s award-winning first film (Best Innovation, Atlanta, 1995; Best Experimental Film, Oberhausen, 1991) was exhibited in 'Moving Portraits' at the De La Warr Paviliion, Bexhill, Sussex in 2011, and at A Century of Film and Video Artists (2004) at Tate Britain.Pucill’s individual visual language emerged in the 1990s in the context of visual arts and experimental film, and has been shown internationally in galleries and cinemas. Retrospective screenings include ‘A History of Artists Film and Video’ (2007) at BFI Southbank. Pucill's work was included in 'Assembly: A survey of recent artists’ film and video in Britain 2008–2013' at Tate Britain, 2014.Her films have been screened at major international film festivals including: BFI London Film Festival, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Osnabruck Media Arts Festival, Berlinale and Montreal Festival of New Cinema. Television broadcasts include: BSB TV Australia (Mirrored Measure, 1996; bought by BSB), Carlton Television (Backcomb, 95; funded by Carlton), Granada TV (You Be Mother, 1990).She is a Reader at the University of Westminster since 2000.
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