VEXATIONS: A 16mm film by Mrs. William Horsely

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' director 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.