THE WEEK: SEPT 19-23.

MoMA Premiere: Through the Weeping Glass: An Evening with the Quay Brothers
September 24, 2011
As part of a limited three-city tour that includes premieres in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, MoMA presents the Quay Brothers’Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum), a new work by the American-born, British-based independent filmmakers. In the tradition of their prior museum documentaries—The Phantom Museum (2003), on London’s Sir Henry Wellcome Collection, and Inventorium of Traces (2009), on Poland’s Lancut Castle—the Quays return to the city where they began their education as graphic designers to explore the medical collections of the Mütter Museum, part of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Examining obscure archives, antique volumes, and artifacts, Through the Weeping Glass investigates marvels of pathology and anatomical oddities, finding poetry in the ill-fated, true-life stories of the “ossified man” Harry Eastlack and famed Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker. The documentary Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers, shot during production ofThrough the Weeping Glass, also premieres. Directors Stephen and Timothy Quay will be present to discuss the film with writer David Spolum and moderator Barbara London.
September 18, 2011, 9:57 pm
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MoMA Premiere: Through the Weeping Glass: An Evening with the Quay Brothers
September 24, 2011
As part of a limited three-city tour that includes premieres in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, MoMA presents the Quay Brothers’Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum), a new work by the American-born, British-based independent filmmakers. In the tradition of their prior museum documentaries—The Phantom Museum (2003), on London’s Sir Henry Wellcome Collection, and Inventorium of Traces (2009), on Poland’s Lancut Castle—the Quays return to the city where they began their education as graphic designers to explore the medical collections of the Mütter Museum, part of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Examining obscure archives, antique volumes, and artifacts, Through the Weeping Glass investigates marvels of pathology and anatomical oddities, finding poetry in the ill-fated, true-life stories of the “ossified man” Harry Eastlack and famed Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker. The documentary Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers, shot during production ofThrough the Weeping Glass, also premieres. Directors Stephen and Timothy Quay will be present to discuss the film with writer David Spolum and moderator Barbara London.
The Ecstasy of Death No 1 & 2.
June 19, 2011, 7:00 am
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Filed under: FILM/VIDEO | Tags: 1, 2, 22, Alex MacKenzie, american, and, angeline, animals, brooklyn, Caitlin Doughty, Carl Sondrol, death, ectstasy, Eliot Rausch., fauxtographs, filmmaker, funeral, Garen Tolkin, good, gragasin, Gray Chu, Heather Gildroy, history, industry, Jean Luc Dushime, Jonathon Anthony, Kelly Royere, kickstater, lisa, magazine, Mara Zehler, Matthew Montgomery, mortuary, new, no., ny, nyc, of, order, professional, project, revolutionize, Ross Conklin, series, stage, the, The Allied Crafts Coalition, videos, york
Directed by Angeline Gragasin.
A series of staged fauxtographs reenacting the History of the American Funeral Industry. The second in a series of videos documenting the life of a mortuary professional as she sets out to revolutionize the death industry one corpse at a time. For more info: orderofthegooddeath.com
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