Statues Hardly Ever Smile

Statues Hardly Ever Smile — Plot

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
• 21 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Stan Lathan