Ritualised through performance to camera, Stages of Mourning is Pucill’s journey of bereavement. In as much as this is a meditation on coming to terms with loss, the film is an exploration of how our relationship with the dead is made different through film. The artist orders image fragments of her late lover and collaborator, Sandra Lahire. By trying to physically immerse herself into photographs and film footage or by restaging these, Pucill forms a continuous stream of a life of two lovers. Through this doubling and layering, illusions accumulate as if these were a product of a machine that didn’t stop.
Sarah Pucill
Director
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Lucky Them60%
Strange Weather58%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Bastard Out of Carolina71%
Holy Lands61%
Love, Marilyn66%
Petals on the Wind65%
Cameraperson67%
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Hamnet77%
The Trials of Cate McCall63%
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Love & Sex61%
The Souvenir61%
My Brilliant Career61%
Tuesday67%
Hounddog64%
The Souvenir: Part II65%
