Tomorrow: Sarah Pucill Films at Air Gallery

from AIR Gallery:

Monday June 29, 2009, 7pm

AIR Gallery presents an evening of films by Sarah Pucill


AIR Gallery will host British artist photographer and filmmaker Sarah Pucill who will introduce her work and be present for questions. The screening is part of a North American tour where retrospectives of her films will premiere her new film Fall In Frame, 2009, at venues including Anthology Film Archives, NY, MassArt Film Society, Boston, LA Filmforum and Echo Park Film Center, LA and Pleasure Dome Toronto. Her films play with boundaries of self and other, frequently involving mirrors or mirroring, sometimes rigorously formal, other times humorously enamored with the possibilities of light, surfaces, and bodies, while exploring the range of possibilities vested in the camera. Her work has been shown at the Millennium, NY and last year Taking My Skin was exhibited in Mother Cuts at New Jersey University, alongside Mary Kelly, Mona Hatoum and Mieka Bal.

The evening screening will include:
You Be Mother (1990, 7 min., 16mm, color)
Best Experimental Film Award, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany
Best Innovation Award, Atlanta Film Festival, USA
‘Wicked Women and Wayward Girls’, BFI compilation tape, distributed by Connoisseur Video
Milk and Glass (1993, 10 min., 16mm, color)
Taking My Skin (2006, 35 min., 16mm, b&w)
Marion McMahon Award, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada (2007)
Fall In Frame (2009, 18 min., 16mm, color)

“The process of making is the starting point for my work, in which space and point of view have been longstanding concerns as has the (female) body…There is an existential element to the slow pacing of the performance that confronts the viewer (and performer) with what it means to be in front of a camera, where the moment is being marked as an image outside of time. This approach to filmmaking runs counter to commercial film techniques, where the actual place of filming (the pro-filmic) is not only not repressed but is brought to the fore as a central characteristic of the film.” – Sarah Pucill

Nina Buesing for NY Times

Our own Nina Buesing has a portrait photograph of Azazel Jacob's “Momma’s Man" featured in today's issue of New York Times.

AZAZEL JACOBS’S “Momma’s Man,” a film about a grown son’s fraught homecoming, is also a literal home movie, starring his own parents and shot in the TriBeCa loft where he grew up. When Mr. Jacobs, 35, started writing the script, he was thinking about the familiar indulgences of a return to the nest. “You wake up and there’s coffee waiting, and you ask yourself why you ever left,” he said. But he soon became more interested in the murky flip side to those family comforts: the feeling of regression and disorientation. “Some mornings,” he added, “you wake up and you don’t even know what year it is.”

Emily Shur's Blog & Polaroid

Photographer Emily Shur (who participated in the first Nymphoto show) recently started blogging and today's entry compliments this blog's last post about Polaroid abandoning Instant Photography. Read Emily's post titled "Where Do I Go From Here?" and get a glimpse at some Polaroids she recently took in Hong Kong.

Polaroid Abandons Instant Photography

Read more here: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-abandons-instant-photography/

E-mail Campaign to Keep 35mm Kodak Infared Film in Production

Photographer Shelly Wood has started an e-mail campaign to encourage Kodak to keep their HIE Infrared 35 mm Film in production. This only takes a second to complete.
Simply email Kodak's Patrick Hamilton at
patrick.hamilton@kodak.com and either paste the following:

"PLEASE REVERSE PLANS TO DISCONTINUE MANUFACTURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF HIE-135 INFRARED FILM".

or write your own quick note.

Shelly Wood says:
"Mr. Hamilton has encouraged me to write Kodak and is aware of this
email campaign to save HIE-135. He has assured me that he will get the messages to the appropriate people."