Incandescence
Video
11 minutes

Incandescence is an exploration of hybrid cultures as seen through the video portrait of Loretta Cardinal, a Franco-Manitoban born in 1906 who received her entire education in Manitoba in English. Only through marriage to a Francophone did she rediscover and begin to reclaim her culture. Incandescence unfolds through a series of personal and historical anecdotes about Loretta Cardinal that shed light and understanding on the tensions inherent in bicultural relationships and the quest for cultural identity.

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