Statues Hardly Ever Smile (1971)

Overview : Edited by famed filmmaker Kathleen Collins, Statues Hardly Ever Smile follows a group of middle school children during a six-week project at the Brooklyn Museum, where they collectively discover and respond to the Egyptian collection. With narration by a member of the museum’s education department, we witness the group’s daily exercises and reflections as they create a theatre piece centered on the relationships developed with the objects and each other.

Release Date : January 1, 1971

Runtime : 21m

Genre : Documentary  

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Countries : United States of America

Keywords : documentary short