Memento Macabre: Sketches from the Mütter Museum
"Through the Weeping Glass" by The Brothers Quay colour, B/N, USA 31’ 2011
“The Deformity of Beauty- A Last Dance with the Mütter Maidens” by Valentina Lari B/N, USA/UK 20’ 2011
A showing of two experimental films shot and created entirely around the pathological collection of the world renowned Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, with a discussion of the process, the ethical approach and difficulties that visual artists have when working with human remains and medical institutions for a project. And, from a more strictly cinematic point of view, discuss the visual choices and solutions that were eventually chosen for the making of the films...
