Sophie Standford

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Stabat Mater


1993-2021
single channel black and white HD video | Super-8mm film fragment | 0’50” | sound
music: Stabat Mater © Patric Standford
archive sound samples: BBC Radio 3
Stabat Mater is an experimental Super-8mm film made in collaboration with family members in the 1990s, bringing two separate films together in an edit along the film’s length. A domestic kitchen: a woman, a mother, a man, a father. 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 at DIVFUSE Film Archive No.1 with a theme on domesticity, London

© Sophie Standford, 2026 
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