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 museumâs education department, we witness the groupâs daily exercises and reflections as they create a theatre piece centered on the relationships developed with the objects and each other.
1971-01-01