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Stabat Mater


1994-2021
Super-8mm black and white film 
transferred to single channel video
Duration: 0’50”
Music: Stabat Mater by Patric Standford
Sound samples: BBC Radio 3 
Location: West Yorkshire
Stabat Mater is an experimental Super-8mm film bringing two separate films together in an edit along the film’s length. The scene is a domestic kitchen: a woman, a mother on the left engaged in domesticity; a man, a father, on the right talking at the table. Mending a fractured, irreconcilable relationship; isolated in their own worlds, yet forced into the same frame. The film’s uneven bulk inevitably got caught in the projector, most of which melted and caught fire.

2025 screened as part of Dialogues by Sophie Standford (UK) 
DIVFUSE Film Archive No.1 with a theme on domesticity.


Stabat Mater © Patric Standford

© Sophie Standford, 2025
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