„Mary Magdalene in Conversation with Lilian Broca“ Docuentary Trailer – FESCH.TV

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Documentary, 90 min, Canada

The documentary ‘Mary Magdalene in Conversation with Lilian Broca’ is a visual and intellectual feast that forcibly confronts and challenges long ingrained historic and contemporary norms of female inequality. In these days of feminine discourse relating to the reassessment of women’s issues, more than anyone, the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene deserves to be revisited and re-evaluated. For close to 2,000 years her persona has been defiled, defamed and reviled.

Placed in a modern day setting, Broca in spiritual alliance with the biblical figure Mary Magdalene weaves a wondrous, animated and engaging tale recounting her long and arduous creative journey. The artist chooses the perfect medium, mosaics, for restoring the high social status Mary Magdalene enjoyed in 1st c. CE. In the distant past mosaics were reserved for celebrating mostly masculine achievements. Therefore, in continuity with ancient tradition, Broca inserts her awe-inspiring Venetian glass mosaics of a female Biblical heroine into the historic timeline, as she deems it necessary to redress history’s sin of omission. In post-modern fashion, using monumental mosaic panels Lilian Broca supersedes the boundaries of linear time with images that highlight the Biblical heroine’s multidimensional stature as a female powerhouse in her own right.

We acknowledge the support of Canada Council for the Arts.