《幻影博物馆》是2003年的一部动画片。由史蒂芬·奎执导,史蒂芬·奎等联袂主演。幻影博物馆,又名The Phantom Museum、Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection。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 American-born pharmaceutical pioneer Sir Henry Wellcome (1853-1936), who assembled over 125,000 medical artifacts, many of which are currently stored in London's 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 Wellcome's Medical Collection'. A linking device (shot on grainy black-and-white 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 Wellcome's collection. Sometimes they're 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 collection's many dolls come apart to reveal their anatomically-correct innards - one female body has a baby in her walnut-sized 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 collection's 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 pre-existing 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, filmmaker-musician Gary Tarn provided a plangent semi-electronic accompaniment, occasionally interspersed with sound effects, notably in the shot of an old birthing chair and forceps being pressed into service on an invisible mother-to-be, whose baby can be heard crying as it emerges.
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DVD电影网评分7.3,算是一部中等偏上的电影作品,值得收藏看,推荐大家观看。
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苦禄 说:用视觉语言呈现Wellcome Collection中奎们挑选的物件,剪辑时引导观众产生联想,在不加解说的形式下讲解藏品,无声胜有声,很有意思。也可以窥见奎们对猎奇事物的喜爱和趣味-新生、性和死亡,医学解剖人偶和各式样的器具。解封后要去WC。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.
Vini_Kazma 说:副标题是“对Henry Wellcome爵士 (1853–1936)存放医学收藏品的地窖的随机参观”,是为不列颠博物馆的一个展览所做的视频装置作品。影片既没有抽象也没有超现实,只是混合了真人表演和停格动画两种表现形式。很多陈列品都明白无误地跟性有关。
paradiso 说:虽然用手动演示和定格动画以及相关位置摆放告诉你这些古典医疗器械教具(夹带了几件春宫秘戏偶人)本来的用途,但整部影片的形式和气氛反而意在展示剥离原本功能后它们作为美学对象的重生。史云梅耶也有个短片叫《自然史》
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