Confessions To The Mirror
Confessions to the Mirror is the second part of a diptych of films re-enacting photographs by the Surrealist artist Claude Cahun (1894-1954), as tableaux vivants accompanied by spoken text from Cahun’s writing. These re-enactments run alongside stagings from Cahun’s writing that narrate the anti-Nazi resistance activity the artist and her partner, Suzanne Malherbe, undertook on the Jersey Island, and their subsequent imprisonment.
Sarah Pucill has been making 16mm short films since completing her MA at the Slade School of Art in 1990. Her publicly-funded films have screened worldwide in galleries, and have won awards at international festivals. Her first feature-length film in black and white, Magic Mirror (2013), premiered at Tate Modern, toured internationally with LUX and was exhibited with photographs from the film at The Nunnery Gallery 2015. Her sequel to Magic Mirror, Confessions to the Mirror (2016), also shot on 16mm, premiered at London Film Festival and has since screened at international film festivals and museum galleries including the Alchemy Film Festival, Creteil Film Festival, National Portrait Gallery, and White Cube Gallery London. She has a doctorate and is Reader at University of Westminster. A forthcoming chapter on her recent films on Cahun will be published by Palgrave Macmillian, edited by V. Smith and N. Hamlin next year. Her work is collected and distributed through leading international distributors including LUX, The British Film Institute (BFI), and Light Cone Paris.