Tuesday,
March 4 at 7pm
The
Music of Regret
dir.
Laurie Simmons, US, 2006, BetaSP, 40 mins,
color
Director
Laurie Simmons in person
Co-presented
by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
in conjunction with "The Puppet Show"
 Laurie
Simmons, best-known for her photographs of miniature rooms populated
by dolls and of oversized objects – such as a house, birthday
cake, and pistol – balanced on female legs, both human and fake,
brings these characters to life in The Music of Regret,
a three-act mini-musical. The film is inspired by three distinct
periods of Simmons’ photographic work: vintage hand puppets,
ventriloquist dummies and walking objects enact tales of ambition,
disappointment, love, loss, and regret. Simmons’ puppets come
to life in miniature domestic scenes that echo real life and
extends her photographic practice to performance, incorporating
musicians, professional puppeteers, Alvin Ailey dancers, Hollywood
cinematographer Ed Lachman and actress Meryl Streep. “I expected
viewers to believe that they were entering a real place that
really existed, a place where time stood still.”
–
Laurie Simmons
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