幻影博物馆 / The Phantom Museum (2003)
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英国又名：
Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection
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2003英国动画短片《幻影博物馆》由史蒂芬·奎导演，史蒂芬·奎主演，影片讲述的是：
The Phantom Museum was originally commissioned by the Wellcome Trust as a video installation for the British Museum exhibition Medicine Man The Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome which ran from June to November 2003 This provided an opportunity for the public to examine some of the rarer items in the extraordinary collection of Americanborn pharmaceutical pioneer Sir Henry Wellcome 18531936 who assembled over 125000 medical artifacts many of which are currently stored in Londons Science Museum and normally viewable by appointment only
Typically the Quay Brothers film consists more of a series of impressions of the Wellcome collection than a guided tour their approach summed up by its subtitle Random Forays into Sir Henry Wellcomes Medical Collection A linking device shot on grainy blackandwhite Super 8 stock involves a man clad in a black suit and white gloves ascending staircases warlking along corridors switching on lights and investigating rooms full of cabinets bearing tantalising labels Shrunken Heads Scalp
Interspersed with these are much sharper colour sequences depicting various objects in Wellcomes collection Sometimes theyre displayed as static museum pieces sometimes rotated and occasionally animated Many of the exhibits are explicitly sexualised from the diagram demonstrating the use of a chastity belt next to an example of the real thing to tender Oriental sculptures of human lovemaking Many of the collections many dolls come apart to reveal their anatomicallycorrect innards one female body has a baby in her walnutsized womb connected via an umbilical piece of string
Prosthetic arms and legs abound in one case attached to a live human body while there are plenty of dead ones glimpsed in the collections storerooms their lipless mouths fixed in a permanent grin If the film is often unsettling this is less because of the Quays proven feel for the uncanny than for the way the Wellcome collection itself inescapably exploits our most fundamental fears of birth sex mutilation and death
The Quays originally edited the film to preexisting recordings of the music of Czech composer Zdenek Liska previously featured in The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer in 1984 but were unable to clear the necessary rights In the final version filmmakermusician Gary Tarn provided a plangent semielectronic accompaniment occasionally interspersed with sound effects notably in the shot of an old birthing chair and forceps being pressed into service on an invisible mothertobe whose baby can be heard crying as it emerges
The Phantom Museum was originally commissioned by the Wellcome Trust as a video installation for the British Museum exhibition Medicine Man The Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome which ran from June to November 2003 This provided an opportunity for the public to examine some of the rarer items in the extraordinary collection of Americanborn pharmaceutical pioneer Sir Henry Wellcome 18531936 who assembled over 125000 medical artifacts many of which are currently stored in Londons Science Museum and normally viewable by appointment only
Typically the Quay Brothers film consists more of a series of impressions of the Wellcome collection than a guided tour their approach summed up by its subtitle Random Forays into Sir Henry Wellcomes Medical Collection A linking device shot on grainy blackandwhite Super 8 stock involves a man clad in a black suit and white gloves ascending staircases warlking along corridors switching on lights and investigating rooms full of cabinets bearing tantalising labels Shrunken Heads Scalp
Interspersed with these are much sharper colour sequences depicting various objects in Wellcomes collection Sometimes theyre displayed as static museum pieces sometimes rotated and occasionally animated Many of the exhibits are explicitly sexualised from the diagram demonstrating the use of a chastity belt next to an example of the real thing to tender Oriental sculptures of human lovemaking Many of the collections many dolls come apart to reveal their anatomicallycorrect innards one female body has a baby in her walnutsized womb connected via an umbilical piece of string
Prosthetic arms and legs abound in one case attached to a live human body while there are plenty of dead ones glimpsed in the collections storerooms their lipless mouths fixed in a permanent grin If the film is often unsettling this is less because of the Quays proven feel for the uncanny than for the way the Wellcome collection itself inescapably exploits our most fundamental fears of birth sex mutilation and death
The Quays originally edited the film to preexisting recordings of the music of Czech composer Zdenek Liska previously featured in The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer in 1984 but were unable to clear the necessary rights In the final version filmmakermusician Gary Tarn provided a plangent semielectronic accompaniment occasionally interspersed with sound effects notably in the shot of an old birthing chair and forceps being pressed into service on an invisible mothertobe whose baby can be heard crying as it emerges
