Pulp
In the strange, eerie factory in which she works, El enters a vacant room: a void that swallows everything around it. Sawdust cascades from above, catching shafts of light. In this room, an apparition fades into existence: the ghostly figure of El’s mother, beckoning her into the light.
Through visions of El’s past – memories that seep in from dreams, coalescing into a violent storm of anger and heartache – Pulp asks whether it’s possible to ask for forgiveness, and whether El can at last overcome the grief that she carries with her.
Unclassified 15+
Course: BFA FVT Honours
Director Biography
Sarah is a director/writer based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. She makes films that feel like mythological poems about experiences of internal and external decay. Her previous film Small (2023), about a family in early 19th century colonial Australia being infected with smallpox, premiered at the 2024 St Kilda Film Festival. Her Honours project Pulp (2024) is about a woman experiencing visions of her mother reflected by light. Sarah is also an independent producer and has several films in the festival circuit, including shorts Pleasure (dir. Jasper Caverly, 2024) Hiraeth (dir. Lucien Perry, 2023) and feature film Fwends (dir. Sophie Somerville, 2024)