Through the weeping glass : On the consolations of life everlasting.

A characteristically eerie Brothers Quay film with specially composed music looking at the collections in the Mütter Museum's medical collection. Using the exhibits, photographs and historical documentation, one of the exhibits is Harry, a boy who suffered a minor fracture aged 5, which then resulted in a rare, unmanageable and untreatable bone condition; his skeleton is on permanent display. The contents of the library (such as rare anatomy textbooks) are eerily presented. The Mütter houses the Hyrtl Skull Collection and a collection of swallowed objects donated to the museum. A range of sinister medical instruments such as a scarifier for the purpose of blood letting are seen. There are models of the Chinese practice of foot binding; instruments to remove a baby stuck in the birth canal and various nightmare enducing specimens preserved in jars. A plaster cast of Chang and Eng, Siamese twins (conjoined twins), exists in the museum together with their liver.