Sewing For Jesus

2005

video/animation, with Ignacio Alcantara

Sewing For Jesus examines the relationship between the handwork of sewing and animation. It simultaneously makes a sincere and ironic statement about faith and loss on the home front, within the context of war.

It is the result of a 48-hour collaboration with Ignacio Alcantara, an award winning animator and filmmaker based in the Dominican Republican, during our residencies at MacDowell.

Sewing For Jesus features work on Prayer Banner: REPENT, a communal mourning project in which people gather to stitch the names of American and Iraqi citizens who have died in the war onto cloth coffins.