Late Birds: Sara Preibsch

Late Birds, Sara Preibsch. 16mm, Black & White, Sound, 4 minutes, UK, 2003 Sara Preibsch’s Late Birds, is a fantastic and yet strangely minimal record of the view from an elevated train by night, as it meanders through London’s East End. By exposing this otherwise everyday experience to film, Preibsch transforms the nature of this journey into a dizzying non-stop phantasmagoric play of reflected light, which revolve, turn within themselves and sweep up again to create the ultimate hallucinogenic carnival ride. Sara Preibsch recently exhibited work at Vine Space, London, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, the Images Festival, Toronto, Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris, Färg Fabriken, Stockholm and in 2008 she received a LAFVA award for the production of her next film. Preibsch’s photographic work was also recently included in the monograph Hultsbruk Ready-Maids published by Marmalade and Edition Solitude. She was born in Sweden and currently lives and works in London.