Two minutes of sacred footsteps echoing 140 years of rebellion and resilience.
This very short film from the Canada Vignettes series documents the annual pilgrimage that members of Saskatchewan’s Métis Catholic community make to St. Laurent, a village in the Duck Lake area that became the Métis nation’s spiritual centre at the time of the 1885 Northwest Rebellion.
Direction
McCrimmon lets silence and landscape do the talking.
Editing
Economical: every second earns its place.
Director
Dan J. McCrimmon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The St. Laurent shrine remains one of few sites where Métis Catholicism persists distinctly from both settler and Indigenous traditions. The 1885 rebellion's defeat made this annual gathering an act of stubborn continuity.
Canada Vignettes was the NFB's 1970s-80s series of 1-4 minute experimental shorts, often assigned to emerging filmmakers with minimal budgets. McCrimmon made this while still a student.
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