Photography: A Queer History

The work of Sarah Pucill is featured in the new book publication, Photography: A Queer History, edited by Flora Dunster and Theo Gordon, published by Ilex. ‘Across ten diverse themes from documentary to performance, landscape to abstraction, visibility to militancy and more “photography: A Queer History examines the fundamental role of photography in the creation of […]

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‘Magic Mirror’ film screening at Cambridge University

Film Screening of Sarah Pucill’s Magic Mirror at Cambridge University, on 13 June 2024. The screening will be followed by a discussion between the filmmaker, and  Dr Diamuid Hester, who recently wrote about Claude Cahun in his book ‘Nothing Ever Just Disappears’. The discussion will be chaired by Cambridge doctoral researcher, Ciara Hervas. Magic Mirror […]

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‘Double Exposure’ screening at Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art

Sarah Pucill‘s film, ‘Double Exposure’ (2023) is screening at Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art in London, on 31 May 2024. The screening is followed by a discussion between the filmmaker and the curator and writer Helena Reckitt. Sarah Pucill’s recent film ‘Double Exposure’ (16mm+Digital, 26min, 2023) premiered at Frankfurt Experimental Film Festival September 2023 and won Best Experimental Film […]

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MIRAJ launch at RCA

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Please join Moving Image Review and Art Journal at the Royal College of Art’s Battersea campus to celebrate the launch of four new MIRAJ Issues: 11.1, 11.2, 12.1 and our latest special guest-edited issue 12.2 Spectral Cinema and Contested Landscapes. Featuring screenings and talks with the artists Alia Syed and Juanita Onzaga. We are pleased to […]

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Animate Projects – Accelerate Sessions: The Personal Archive

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CREAM PhD researcher, Mary Martins will be discussing her research and practice in the Animate Projects – Accelerate Sessions: The Personal Archive on Tuesday 12th March at 6pm. This session looks at ‘the personal archive’ where Mary will be joined by artists and animators, Jessica Ashman, Maybelle Peters and Keith Piper as they all discuss and […]

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Women in Revolt Conference

Registration is now open for Women in Revolt: radical acts, contemporary resonances. This conference will take place in the Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 March 2024 (10.00-18.00), following an opening reception at Chelsea Space, University of the Arts, London on Thursday 21 March 2024 (18.00-20.30). Bringing together papers in response […]

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The World Builders: The influence of fantasy in film and games design

CREAM’s Jane Barnwell is in conversation with Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer, as part of a day of talks and discussions to close the exhibition Fantasy: Realms of Imagination at the British Library. This day of talks and discussions explores the creation of worlds within filmmaking and game-design, bringing together leading production designers, game designers, […]

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‘Double Exposure’ Awarded Best Experimental Film

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Sarah Pucill’s latest film Double Exposure (2023) has been awarded Best Experimental Film at this year’s Toronto Women Film Festival.  Double Exposure re-stages photographs of Pucill and her once partner, filmmaker Sandra Lahire that were made collaboratively shortly before Lahire’s death from anorexia in 2001.   Set inside an otherwise quiet studio, black and white interior scenarios […]

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Designs on Television: Production design and television aesthetics

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN A CREAM, University of Westminster conference 18 and 19 April 2024, Chiltern Hall, University of Westminster Marylebone Campus, NW1 5LS. Design is a key element of all sorts of television, but frequently neglected in academic studies. In 2003, Piers D. Britton and Simon J. Barker wrote ‘No serious, sustained examination of the role […]

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