Movies: Sarah Turner

  • 1999
    Cut

    Cut (1999)

    Cut

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    A difficult night out sparks a traumatic memory for a woman whose way out is to ritualistically harm, then fix herself. Intercutting the two states of the protagonist's psyche, rich golden sweeps from the past begin to bleed into the reds and blues o...

    Cut
  • 2009
    Perestroika

    Perestroika (2009)

    Perestroika

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    Sarah Turner's film is a ghost story that explores what we forget and how we remember. The stunning imagery comes solely from the window of the Trans-Siberian train, shot first in 1987-8 and then again in 2007-8. The re-enactment of the journey is a ...

    Perestroika
  • 2013
    Perestroika: Reconstructed

    Perestroika: Reconstructed (2013)

    Perestroika: Reconstructed

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    Re-mixes and extends Perestroika (2009) into two sequences. Sequence one constritutes the 2009 version, while the second sequence constructs a new framing narrative that reinterprets and reconfigures both the imagery and the experience of the first....

    Perestroika: Reconstructed
  • 2015
    Public House

    Public House (2015)

    Public House

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    Experimental exploration of The Ivy House pub in Peckham, which was sold to developers as part of the gentrification of South London....

    Public House
  • 1991
    A Tale Part Told

    A Tale Part Told (1991)

    A Tale Part Told

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    The film opens directly and freshly with a screen journey which is also a kinetic light sculpture holding its rotation steadily before our eyes. Many associations emerge as we hear the tale in relation to this image and its shifting background. . . i...

    A Tale Part Told
  • 1988
    The Bee and the Honeypot

    The Bee and the Honeypot (1988)

    The Bee and the Honeypot

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    Experimental short film by Sarah Turner....

    The Bee and the Honeypot
  • 2003
    London Birds Can't Fly

    London Birds Can't Fly (2003)

    London Birds Can't Fly

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    London Birds... evokes the shifting mental states of a streetwise, 15 year old girl. The film explores the impact of her surprise sexual awakening: a moment of rejection that's bad enough to make her run and keep running....

    London Birds Can't Fly
  • 1990
    One and the Other Time

    One and the Other Time (1990)

    One and the Other Time

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    One And The Other Time is an erotically charged experimental film exploring the dynamics between intimacy and violence. Grainy blue tinted images of a swaying branch of silver balls rhythmically knocking each other, mesmerise and evoke a sense of our...

    One and the Other Time
  • 1989
    She Wanted Green Lawns

    She Wanted Green Lawns (1989)

    She Wanted Green Lawns

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    Featuring the Carpenters song ‘Close To You’, this is an ode to love and fantasy. Filmed in a gay bar, the roving camera hesitates on a woman’s face, on some lilies, on small groups of people drinking and enjoying themselves and on the proverbial kis...

    She Wanted Green Lawns
  • 1994
    Sheller Shares Her Secret

    Sheller Shares Her Secret (1994)

    Sheller Shares Her Secret

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    Short film about a young girl's rude retaliation for paternal humiliation. In voice over a young woman tells a subversive tale which interweaves suburban kitsch with childhood defiance. The film focuses its point of view on a child's gaze which inter...

    Sheller Shares Her Secret