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Sarah Pucill is a London-based film artist who studied at the Slade School of Fine Art 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. The majority of her films take place within the confinements of domestic space. In her explorations of the animate and inanimate, her work probes a journey between mirror and surface.

Her films include: You Be Mother (1990) which won awards at Atlanta Short Film Festival and Oberhausen International Short Film Festival. Milk and Glass (1993) Backcomb 1995 Mirrored Measure 1996 Swollen Stigma 1998 Cast 2000 Stages Of Mourning 2004 Taking My Skin 2006 Blind Light 2007 Fall In Frame 2009 Phantom Rhapsody 2010 Magic Mirror 2013

You Be Mother (1990) won awards at Atlanta Short Film Festival and Oberhausen International Short Film Festival and Taking My Skin won an award at Images Festival, Toronto. Retrospective screenings of her film have been shown at BFI Southbank, (20011), Tate Britain, LightCone, Paris, premiered at Tate Modern in April 2012 and at ICA.

Magic Mirror was funded by the Arts Council and explores the relationship between word and image in Claude Cahun’s writing from her book Aveux Non Avenus (Disovowals) through a re-staging of her photographs. Part essay, part film poem, Magic Mirror Re-staging the French Surrealist’s black and white photographs, the film explores the links between Cahun’s photographs and writings.LUX will publish a DVD of Autumn 2014.

Phantom Rhapsody (2010) was screened at Edinburgh International Film Festival, at Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts Superieure in Paris, the Millennium, 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.

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. You Be Mother, Pucill’s award winning film (Best Innovation, Atlanta, 1995; Best Experimental Film, Oberhausen, 1991) was exhibited in Moving Portrait at De La Warr Paviliion in 2011 and was exhibited in ‘A Century of Film and Video Artists’ (2004) at Tate Britain and in Assembly, Tate Britain, 'Assembly, A Survey of Recent Artists Film and Video in Britain 2007-1013. Her films have had retrospective screening and in ‘A History of Artists Film and Video’ (2007) at BFI Southbank.

Her films have been screened at major international film festivals including: London Film Festival, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Osnabruck Media Arts Festival, Berlin International Film Festival 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 University of Westminster since 2000.