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Plutonium Blonde

Sandra Lahire

UK
1987
Experimental
15’
OFe
Focus

As penetrating as X-rays and as colourful as fireworks: Sandra Lahire’s film about female workers at a nuclear plant in the 1980s glows as though the celluloid itself were radioactively contaminated. Like her two subsequent films, Uranium Hex (1987) and Serpent River (1989), her work examines the ambivalence of the female body as victim and perpetrator within a toxic chemical industry and patriarchal capitalism.
Maxa Zoller

Director

Sandra Lahire

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Sandra Lahire

Sandra Lahire, born 1950, 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). Lahire was one of the UK’s most outstanding film artists of the 1980s and one of the last members of the London Film-Makers’ Cooperative .


Films by Sandra Lahire (Selection)
Johnny Panic 2000 | Night Dances 1995 | Eerie 1992 | Uranium Hex 1987 | Serpent River 1989 | Terminals 1986 | Edge 1984 | Arrows 1984