Sandra Lahire

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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

Lady Lazarus Trailer (1992)

21 January 1992

A cinematographic response to Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus with Plath’s own readings of her poetry.

Edge Trailer (1986)

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.

Serpent River Trailer (1989)

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.

Eerie Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

Eerie is a vertiginous short film with the rhythmic quality of a loop or a magic ride on a Ferris wheel.

Stages of Mourning Trailer (2004)

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.

Plutonium Blonde Trailer (1987)

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.

Uranium Hex Trailer (1987)

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.

Terminals Trailer (1986)

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.

Johnny Panic Trailer (1999)

01 January 1999

Within this film Lahire deftly combines the fictional aspects of Plath's writing with the stark reality of her life.

Night Dances Trailer (1995)

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.

Cast Trailer (2000)

01 January 2000

Cast creates a claustrophobic and haunting space where people and things invade worlds in which they do not normally belong.

Arrows Trailer (1984)

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.

Mirrored Measure Trailer (1996)

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.