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Original title

Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum)

Year

2011

Running time

31 min.

Country

United States

Director

Timothy Quay, Stephen Quay

Screenwriter

Timothy Quay, Stephen Quay, David Spolum

Cast

Marie Fury
Derek Jacobi
Voice

Music

Timothy Nelson

Cinematography

Adam Carrigan

Producer

Koninck Studios, Pro Bono Productions

Genre

Documentary | Experimental Cinema. Medical. Half-length Film

Synopsis

"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, commissioned by the College, is the first made by the internationally recognized Quay Brothers in the United States. The coupling of the Quay Brothers’ vision with the collections of the Mütter Museum and the College’s Historical Medical Library has produced a riveting experience of contemplative set pieces in which the Quays find poetry in the ill-fated, true-life stories of the “ossified man” Harry Eastlack and famed Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker. Adding to the film’s visual strength is a powerful musical score by composer Timothy Nelson and a resonant voice-over by Derek Jacobi.

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