Confessions To The Mirror
Synopsis
Taking its title from the French Surrealist artist, Claude Cahun’s (1894-1954) incomplete memoir 'Confidences au miroir', Sarah Pucill's film brings life to the photographic and written archive of Claude Cahun amidst a visual extravaganza of costumes and hand-made sets.
Following Cahun’s text, the film includes Cahun’s early and later life and work, including her political propaganda activity and imprisonment in Jersey with her partner Suzanne Malherbe during the Nazi occupation of the island. The tracing of a life is made conscious through the projection of images of the couples' home in Jersey into a domestic London setting.
As a sequel to director Sarah Pucill's previous film 'Magic Mirror' (2013), this film continues her experiment to bring cinematic life to the photographic and written archive of Claude Cahun. In this film Pucill animates re-stagings of Cahun’s black and white self-portrait and still–life photographs with voices from Cahun's text 'Confidences au miroir', collaging and transposing black and white stills and words, into colour and soundscape.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere
Details
- Year
- 2016
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 68 mins
- Format
- 16mm
- Director
- Sarah Pucill
- Producer
- Sarah Pucill
- Editor
- Sarah Pucill; Editing Consultant: Mairead McClean; Online Edit: Konrad Welz
- Director of Photography
- Sarah Pucill
- Sound
- Sound Design: Mairead McClean; Sound Mix and Re-recording: Konrad Welz
- Principal Cast
- Karen Leroy-Harris, Kate Hart, and the voices of Carolyn Saint-Pé, Louise Larchbourne, Lucy Briggs-Owen
- Image Correction and Grade
- Fraser Watson
- Lighting and Second Camera
- Fiona Teo Rui Wen, Joel Honeywell, Rina Yang
- Costume
- Jessica Cheetham
- Make-Up
- Jessica Cheetham, Katie Campbell
- Funder
- Arts Council of England
- Financial Assistance
- University of Westminster
Genre
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 28th September 2016
