Mrs. William Horsley’s Vexations

Matthew Thurber, NYC-based cartoonist and filmmaker, is touring the USA with a new live 16mm film performance and he’s making a stop in Albuquerque. 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.

Matthew Thurber is the author of 1-800-MICE, Infomaniacs, Art Comic, and 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 two-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.