ABOUT Broken toys
Stephanie Wuertz oversees the moving-image archive at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and co-produces the online feature “From the Vaults.” She co-organizes film programming with the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art and has served on the board of Millennium Film Workshop. She is currently at work on a film about Albert Pinkham Ryder, an excerpt of which was included in the exhibition A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. She reinterpreted Kurt Schwerdtfeger’s Reflektorische Farblichtspiele (1922) at Microscope Gallery and recently restaged Paul Louis Ryan’s triadic exercises for the exhibition ABC No Rio 45 Years.
Alice Cohen is a Brooklyn-based musician, songwriter and visual artist. As a recording artist she has released music since the late 70s on both major and independent record labels - from her New Wave 80s band The Vels, to her 90s grunge band Die Monster Die, and beyond, Cohen continues to release her self-produced solo albums. Her visual art is informed by her years in music, drawing on pop culture, dreams and the subconscious. She makes stop-motion collage animations including music videos, and other formats which have been screened at Anthology Film Archives, Filmmaker’s Coop, Printed Matter and elsewhere including the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland.