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“For every joy the sea casts up, it takes a toll of twice that joy in sorrow.”
A young Chinese woman saves an American man washed up onto the shore and the two fall in love, only for him to have second thoughts.
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Gossip
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.
