Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting
(Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) New Quay Brothers short
film to premiere September 2011 in Philadelphia, New York, and
Los Angeles
“To call the Quays’ work the most original and rapturously vivid
image-making on the planet might sound like hyperbole until you
see the films. . . .” —Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting
(Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) is a documentary on the
collections of books, instruments, and medical anomalies at The
College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Mütter Museum. This
short film (running time: 31 minutes) is the first made by the
internationally recognized Quay Brothers in the United States.
As Malcolm Jones (Newsweek) has commented, “the Mütter Museum
teaches you indelibly how strange life can be, how unpredictable
and various [and] will revise and enlarge your idea of what it is
to be human.” The coupling of the Quay Brothers’ vision with the
collections of the College’s Historical Medical Library and Museum
has produced a riveting experience of contemplative set pieces
exploring the College and Mütter Museum. Adding to the film’s
visual strength is a powerful musical score by composer Timothy
Nelson and a resonant voice-over by Derek Jacobi.
The film premieres in three locations in September 2011, with
a moderated conversation with the artists:
* September 22, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 6:30 PM
* September 24, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. 8:00 PM
* September 27, Cary Grant Theater, SONY Pictures Studios, hosted
by The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles, 8:00 PM
details courtesy of Morbid Anatomy
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