The Staircase Miracles
15MM Films
15mm Films is the disability artists’ collective formed by Aaron Williamson. The Serpentine Gallery supported 15mm in the making of The Staircase Miracles, which was filmed on location in Kensington Gardens. The film was screened at The Sackler Centre of Arts Education at the Serpentine Gallery (10 – 30 December 2005).
The Staircase Miracles looks irreverently at the significance of miracles in relation to disabled people. With restless camerawork, ‘hallucinatory’ editing and a riotous soundtrack, the film breaks new ground in the representation of disability in contemporary art.
The mysterious arrival of a golden staircase in London’s Kensington Gardens attracts pilgrims hoping to witness miracles and find a cure for their impairments. They stage a bizarre, ritualistic vigil until Christ appears at the top of the staircase in the guise of a woman in a wheelchair.
The Staircase Miracles was supported by:
The Staircase Miracles
© 2005 15mm Films
