November 20-22nd, 2015
29 Cross Examinations
by Maureen Selwood
In 29 Cross Examinations, filmmaker and installation artist Maureen Selwood moves into new territory with a contemporary meditation on the trial of Joan of Arc. Through live performance, film clips, and transcripts from the actual trial, Selwood cracks open a new perspective on this much mythologized folk hero.
29 Cross Examinations probes the connections between religious fervor and sexual identity, and plays with the bizarre intimacy of the interrogation relationship. Through the actual text of the inquisition, we meet the real Joan – yet, as Joan herself says, “One does not allow the whole truth to be told.”
Written and Directed by Maureen Selwood
Performed by K. Bradford and Nathan Nonhof
Assistant Director: Tempe Hale
Digital Projections by Jeremy Glaholt
Movement Director: Sarah McCarron
Lighting Designer: R. S. Buck
Animation by Maureen Selwood and Sunny Liang
Sculptures courtesy of Megan Cotts