Les Filles de la Croix / Sisters of The Cross
Les Filles de la Croix is a video that proposes to unveil the hidden and profound lives of a disappearing order of nuns in Winnipeg, Brazil, Argentina, and France. This contemplative work is a meditation on the texture of slowness, the nature of listening, and the relationship between attention and time.
Les Filles de la Croix (sample)
HD video with 5.1 Surround Sound
Full-length video: 10:20
2012
I collaborated with the Les Filles de la Croix in the creation of this ten year project in Canada, Brazil, Argentina, and France. My ongoing artistic concerns are further explored in this work by allowing me to create stages for female subjects that counter those that gender, race, and class stereotypes have relegated them to. My experience of time within the walls of the convent marked me and this quality of time is an essential element of what I strive to convey.