Lady Lazarus

7.0
  • Run time: 24 min
  • Premiere: 1992. January 21.

A cinematographic response to Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus with Plath’s own readings of her poetry. A carousel of images in windows, an atmosphere of constant metamorphosis; her poetry as cinema. Audo outtakes of Plath reading from "Cut," "Daddy," "Lady Lazarus," "Ariel," "Ouija," as well as excerpts from a 1962 interview. Mixing images of Plath's obsessions (ouija boards, horses, violent self-harm) with photographs of the poet and her work, the film delves deeply into an existence that Plath herself, in a voice-over interview, calls "living on air."

Discover

Sylvia Plath

Narrator (voice) (archive footage)

Camera

Sandra Lahire

Director of Photography

Nicola Baldwin

Additional Camera

Robin Sheppard

Assistant Camera

Crew

Directing

Sandra Lahire

Director

Editing

Production

Kate Ogborn

Executive Producer

Helena Bullivant

Production Assistant

Gill Henderson

Producer

Sound

Anna Ksiezopolska

Sound Editor

Camera

Sandra Lahire

Director of Photography

Nicola Baldwin

Additional Camera

Robin Sheppard

Assistant Camera

Crew

Directing

Sandra Lahire

Director

Editing

Production

Kate Ogborn

Executive Producer

Helena Bullivant

Production Assistant

Gill Henderson

Producer

Sound

Anna Ksiezopolska

Sound Editor