Stanton Cornish-Ward & Trent Crawford, In a World Full of Angels, single channel, HD video, 2022
Written, shot and edited by
Trent Crawford &
Stanton Cornish-Ward
Skydiver
Maura Rosqvist
Voiceover
Willow
Composition, sound design
& audio mix
Mitchell Mackintosh
Mastering
Pat Telfer
Commissioned by Gertrude Contemporary as part of their Digital Projects 2022
Referencing films such as Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), and La Rabbia (1963), In a World Full of Angels presents a mosaic vision of faith amidst turbulent technological and historical developments. As a pilgrim skydiver prepares to fall to Earth, she contemplates her place in history, drawing through-lines between the world today and two notable events of “divine” aerial intervention – the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima, Portugal in 1917, and the use of atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Muddled by her own temporal and cultural distance to these events, the skydiver confronts her own modernity by channeling an eschatological prophecy that attempts to grasp meaning in an otherwise groundless world.
Fatima Prayer Card, “At last my Immaculate Heart will triumph”, date unknown.
