Writer Director Filmmaker based in London

distribution@lux.org.uk milessarah@icloud.com

Sarah Miles

NEW WORK

The Vase

Cinemama

It Might Even Be Kind Of A Relief To Be Finished Marilyn Monroe

Filming Ambiguity

Something and Nothing

are independent and interconnected, investigating the process the context and the relationship between innocence and experience (the heartbreaking performance of identity) and the relationship between life and art. With reference to the philosopher Stanley Cavell’s autobiographical exercises.

Filmed on SonyPD100 and edited on final cut pro7

A way to avoid deconstructing the self is to place it in a cultural and literary structure.

The film medium can explore the mechanics of trauma with it’s gaps inconsistencies.

Using the cultural capital of cinematic quotations and news from the public domain interwoven with the personal so that placing these elements within a context explores how these modalities shape one another. VIeda Skultans The testimony of Lives

I began painting vases during lockdown 2020 beginning with importing anticeramic vases from China and using acrylic, emulsion and photocopies. The collective noun for Vases is a mingling.

In 1969 the year Jean Luc Godard’s Weekend was released my family moved to West Dorset, my young artist parents renegade from disapproving families. We found ourselves buried in the deep dark country, the grass reached my fringe and the stream was full of rainbow trout and the elsan lorry came by once a week. Before long my dad lost his job at the comprehensive but that was Ok he’d made friends with a local lord of the manor and they started a private press. My dad was taking pictures for Derek Jarman poems and then a brief affair with film. I appeared in one of these films called Clothes in a Museum wearing Elizabeth Taylor’s costume from National Velvet. A film in which a young girl masquerades as a boy to win a race.

Throughout her childhood, horses so deeply excited Velvet Brown (Elizabeth Taylor) that merely to look at them was ecstasy. She lost her heart to one at twelve, when she first saw a neighbor’s fierce new gelding running majestically through a meadow. Without quite realizing it..