Vexations

Matthew Thurber is a cartoonist and filmmaker based in NYC. He is the author of 1-800-MICE, INFOMANIACS, Art Comic, Looking For The Cat. His performance history includes Soiled Mattress and the Springs 2006-08, Ambergris 2003-15, a decade of collaborations with Brian Belott, a body of scroll based “paper cinema”, an obsession with pre cinematic devices and particularly animation. He has performed at the Serpentine Gallery UK, Hammer Museum LA, and had a 2 person drawing show with William Wegman in 2017. Thurber’s films Fleegix (2019) The Sea Masons (2021), and Vexations (2024) are feature length narratives on 16mm, manifesting as performances. Mrs William Horsley is a cinema “band” in which the films, made in a role playing game process, are projected in ritual performance where the filmmaker narrates, creates the soundtrack live, and operates multiple film and slide projectors.

VEXATIONS

The CIA around 1959 after successful forays into the visual…