[JILLIAN DRESSING]

Painterly observations of Jillian Harris in front of a dressing table. Reflection of Jillian brushing her hair at the mirror, then tying it back. She takes off her top to reveal her bra, then puts on a jersey and takes it off again. She then puts on a T-shirt and continues to arrange her hair, then brush it. Jillian puts make-up on her face. [Blank film]

“One nets a landscape in a grid of formal rhythms. In a landscape or garden one discerns messages from within. All my films, poems, paintings play more or less between inner and outer events.” - J.M.P., Cantrills Filmnotes nos. 47, 48, August 1985.

“Joanna Margaret Paul’s experimental films are cine-poems: silent meditative studies of environments and/or the people within them. Martin Rumsby has described Paul’s film work as ‘domestic portraiture’. Her camera - often still albeit with a hand-held shiver, sometimes in motion - records moving images that others would deem unimportant: cracks in a concrete wall, a dilapidated building, a woman’s hands ironing. The films are a document of everyday life through the eye of an artist.” - Kathy Dudding.