| Description | Pucill’s research process involves exploring Cahun’s life in Jersey, together with that of her partner and collaborator Marcel Moore, particularly during the Nazi occupation, and studying Cahun’s posthumously published memoir, Confidences au Miroir, and the photographs Cahun and Moore made on the island. The structure and experimental language of Pucill’s film develops an intermedial form for contemplating artistic legacy and relating to historic works and archives, where celluloid and digital, stillness and movement, black and white and colour are points of intersection in an indeterminate narrative. In its particular use of tableaux vivants, Confessions to the Mirror provides a methodology to bring together the written text and still images of a historic artist, while at the same time bringing what is historical into the present through a material reinvention. The film provided new insights into the shifting critical context around Cahun and her collaboration with Moore whilst privileging both her artistic and political work, and proposing a novel form of collaboration between a historic and a contemporary artist. |
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