Sandra Lahire Trailers
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Sandra Lahire was born in 1950. She studied Philosophy at the University of Newcastle-on-Tyne (BA), Fine Art Film at St Martins School of Art (BA 1984) and Film & Environmental Media at the Royal College of Art (MA 1986).
Her films have been shown nationally and internationally at cinemas and festivals including Creteil, Locarno, Berlin, Montreal, Sao Paolo, Turin, Jerusalem, Australia and the Philippines. Writings include Lesbians in Media Education published in Visibly Female (ed Hilary Robinson, Camden Press 1987) and articles for Undercut. She also wrote a musical score for Lis Rhodes' film Just About Now.
She passed away in 2001.
Most Popular Sandra Lahire Trailers
Total trailers found: 13
21 January 1992
A cinematographic response to Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus with Plath’s own readings of her poetry.
01 January 1986
War and violence against women in videos and on the news.’This short, named after Sylvia Plath’s last poem, is about the woman who is a daughter; icy, perfected and petrified for the patriarchy.
01 January 1989
Beautiful but often violent images are interwoven to create an experimental documentary about the hazardous existence of the Serpent River community living in the shadow of uranium mines in Ontario Canada.
01 January 1992
Eerie is a vertiginous short film with the rhythmic quality of a loop or a magic ride on a Ferris wheel.
01 January 2004
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.
01 January 1987
Plutonium Blonde is a beautifully textured collage of sound and images and a fractured narrative about woman’s self-definition and control.
01 January 1987
A memory-using location film of a stay with a uranium mining community. Using a kaleidoscopic array of experimental techniques, this film explores uranium mining in Canada and its destructive effects on both the environment and the women working in the mines.
01 January 1986
A filmic exploration of the working conditions of female workers at nuclear power stations. Voices of women describe their heightened exposure to the risks of lung cancer, miscarriage, Down syndrome or neurological damage.
01 January 1999
Within this film Lahire deftly combines the fictional aspects of Plath's writing with the stark reality of her life.
01 January 1995
"Night Dances is for my mother, who died whilst helping me to make this piano musical. The Dance of Death is bound to life - Lechaim - as we whirl together by Hebrew gravestones.
01 January 2000
Cast creates a claustrophobic and haunting space where people and things invade worlds in which they do not normally belong.
01 January 1984
Arrows uses a combination of live action and rostrum work to communicate the experience of anorexia and to analyse the cultural causes of the condition.
07 March 1996
Mirrored Measure features two women separated by a generation. The older woman ceremoniously lays a table – she repeatedly spreads a cloth and smoothes it out.