I can not wait for Aaron Rose's documentary on Sister Corita Kent to come out. It's called "Become a Microscope". WHEN IS IT COMING OUT?!
Corita Kent was a Catholic nun, an artist and an activist who taught at the Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles in the 1950's and 60's. She found inspiration in pop culture and American consumerism and then juxtaposed that imagery alongside spiritual texts to protest racsim, poverty and the Vietnam War. Naturally the Catholic church didn't always like this, and the head of the Los Angeles archdiocese, Cardinal McIntyre, called Corita a "guerilla with a paintbrush". That's guerrilla, not GO-rilla.
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| Sister Corita , If I, 1969. Screen print. (© Corita Art Center) |
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| Sister Corita, Love Justice. Silkscreen. |
In "Become a Microscope", Aaron Rose uses archival 16mm footage shot in the 1960's as well as interviews with Sister Corita's former students and colleagues to show her unique perspective about looking beyond the surface of things and finding beauty in the mundane.
She said "Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries." Good stuff.
i HAVE to see this! thanks for the heads up! after 13 years of Catholic school, i can definitely appreciate the idea of carefree, funny and cool nuns -- they're not all uptight and stodgy!
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