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The Quay Brothers talk with an enthusiastic crowd during a reception following their gallery talk held at Hartell Gallery. AAP Dean Kent Kleinman and Art Professor Barry Perlus also pictured.
The DORMITORIUM exhibition features the film decors of 11 rarely seen sets from the exquisite puppet animation films of Timothy and Stephen Quay. The decors are literally the hermetically preserved three-dimensional spaces in which the dramas of the films played out.
Gallery Talk
Monday, January 25
John Hartell Gallery, Sibley Dome, 5 p.m.
A reception will immediately follow
Cosponsored by Cornell Cinema, the Department of Theatre, Film & Dance, and the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis. The exhibition was organized and arranged by the University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Cornell Cinema will show:
Tales from the Brothers Quay
Directed by the Quay Brothers
Tuesday, January 26 at 7 p.m.
Thursday, January 28 at 7 p.m.
Willard Straight Theatre
Admission: $6.50 general/$5 seniors/$4 students
Sets from all six films in this program are on display in the John Hartell Gallery in Sibley Dome as part of the touring exhibition Dormitorium, up from January 25 through February 5. With "imaginations so wild you will forget everything you have come to expect from animated films" (Village Voice), the American-born, London-based twin brothers are perhaps most well-known for their short films, including Street of Crocodiles (1986), based on the work of Bruno Shulz; and Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1987), a non-linear dreamlike trip into the Quays' singularly surreal world of unusual architectural forms, living skulls, psychedelic patterns, and robots made of drafting tools and found objects. Also on the program: The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984);The Epic of Gilgamesh (1985); Stille Nacht I (1988); and The Comb (1991). Most in recently struck new prints!
Total running time: 1 hr 22 mins
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Directed by the Quay Brothers
Thursday, January 28 at 8:45 p.m.
Saturday, January 30 at 7:30 p.m.Willard Straight Theatre
Admission: $6.50 general/$5 seniors/$4 students
with Amira Casar, Gottfried John
The Quays second feature after 1995's Institute Benjamenta merges live action and animation in a vaguely 18th century imaginary world where a beautiful opera singer falls prey to an evil inventor on the eve of her wedding, and later becomes captivated by the doctor's piano tuner who bears a resemblance to her lost lover. But the story is mainly a foundation for the Quays' exquisite animated tableaux, the sets for which can be viewed in the John Hartell Gallery in Sibley Dome as part of the exhibition Dormitorium: Film Decors by the Quay Brothers. In Portuguese and English with subtitles. More at zeitgeistfilms.com. 35mm 'Scope.
2006>color>1 hr 35 mins>Germany/UK/France
Dates |
January 25, 2010 – February 5, 2010 |
location |
John Hartell Gallery, Sibley Dome |
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