Basic Info

Release: May 20, 2024

Runtime: 9 min

Status: Released

Videos

Misericorde (Natasa Prosenc Stearns) Sight and Sound BLOC @ MoMi Redstone 4/26/24 4:15pm (YouTube)

Misericorde

2024 9 min 1 votes

Overview

In the Middle Ages a misericorde was a weapon used to put a wounded knight out of his misery. As a theological term, it refers to forgiveness and compassion. In French it has been used as an invocation, notably in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot: “Christ have mercy on us!” That there may be no one listening (or arriving) remains a central anguish, felt in the depression, addiction and other disorders, that are normal responses to increasingly abnormal culture.