Breaking Silence

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Breaking Silence: The Story of the Sisters of DeSales Heights

This poignant production follows twelve nuns behind the cloistered walls of the 150 year-old DeSales Heights Monastery and School in West Virginia during its final year of operation. Captured unobtrusively on camera, the retiring sisters celebrate their last Christmas together and bid farewell to their students. The nuns reflect on their past and attempt to prepare for the future in an outside world that is completely foreign to them. Many of them are over eighty years old and have rarely ventured beyond the walls of their monastery in their adult lives. This program respectfully views shattering changes as these dedicated, religious women are forced to leave the security of the world they have come to love. This unmatched documentary offers insight into a way of life that is rapidly becoming extinct, and raises issues about how the roles of women have changed in today's society.

DATE: 1994

TOPICS:
Alternative Lifestyles/Gender, Economic Issues, History

CREDITS:
Producer: Tommie Dell Smith; Director: Susan Pointon

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Color
58 minutes

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