Swollen stigma

Pucill, Sarah

Swollen stigma [videorecording - DVD] Cast [videorecording] - [S.l. : s.n., 200?] - 1 videodisc (37 mins.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Swollen Stigma (1998); Cast (2000)

'Swollen Stigma' nourishes the fantasy of its protagonist̕s inner life and proposes a lesbian imaginary which takes leap into risk and displacement. The film opens with an entranced seated woman working her fingers through a single strand of hair and proceeds to explore her lived imaginary in which desire and fear interlace 'Cast' creates a claustrophobic and haunting space where people and things invade worlds in which they do not normally belong. Lifeless dolls are heaped inside drawers, dolled-up life size figures lie motionless on a windy beach at the water̕s edge; a chair rocks in an empty room, a mirror reflects and observes, and a chest of drawers is caressed by the sea. The film has a dramatic sensibility that sets up a false promise of narrative. Its structure, instead, is akin to that of dreams where different scenic spaces collapse and the inanimate and animate interchange. Wide-angled perspectives, shifting points of view and juxtapositions of sound and silence force inner and outer realities to collide, creating an unsettling psychic world


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Short films--Great Britain