Production management for 360 video shoots for the National Film Board and MoCCA’s co-presentation of this interactive media art project.

North of Toronto, in the centre of a sprawling suburb sits an ornate, unfinished cathedral once surrounded by farmland. Built by a late mining mogul, this structure is now encircled by newly built homes on streets named after members of his family, as well as his prize-winning Holstein cows.

The most famous of these cows was named Charity.

In July 2017, residents of this community awoke to find a chrome replica of Charity, double its original size, suspended on 25-foot tall stilts in the centre of a small crescent facing their homes.

In the cow’s reflection we witness a struggle between a municipal bureaucracy, a wealthy donor and an unsuspecting community, all forced to confront questions of how to represent the identity of a place.