Matthew Thurber

"Frugal Folk Television" VHS release from 2019 Mrs William Horsley Studios bring you a 40 minute programme of Entertainment, Experiment, Nature and Artifice. 1. Mars Envoy's Missive to Home Planet (Optical Poem) 2. The Pencil of Nature (Botanical Identification) 3. Graveyard Mysteries (With Carlos Gonzalez, Ezra San-Millan, MT Shelves) 4. Woke Animalcules (With Mollie Goldstrom) 5. Swirl Therapy (With Jack Reese) 6. Amphibian's Recital (With Brendan Fay) All edits made in-camera or additively © 2019 M.T. Shelves / Mrs William Horsley

FLEEGIX is a science-fiction film set on Earth, which some people believe to be Mars. Fleegix is a beverage enjoyed by Martians. At the heart of the film is a dispute as to how this substance is manufactured. While Upstate Martians believe Fleegix is made from berries, the Hand Shadow Punks of Baltimore (who represent a pre-cinematic faction) believe the beverage is made from light converted through automobiles containing animalcules. The conflict about the origin of Fleegix acquires symbolic and mythological proportions. The film investigates the nature of belief systems which are superimposed on a physical space. This is less a film than an organism or ecosystem of connected notions which is never completed.

with Kade McClements Special appearances by The Sunny Delights and a really cool Staples employee © 2020 Mrs William Horsley

The Finale of the Mumblecore Musical. With: Shahar Kramer as The Student MT Shelves as The Q&A Attendee Nathaniel Hendrickson as The Kimono Artist Maria Josefina Viteri as Intuition Roya Haroun as The Artist Kade McClements as Kapo Turnberg Leah Wishnia as the Mumblecore Gambler Brian Belott as The Vacuum Factory Manager © 2020 Mrs William Horsley

With Lindsey Griffith, The Mumble Ballet Corps, and Shelby Shaw © 2020 Mrs William Horsley

With Kade McClements as Kapo Turnberg Fiona Szende as Fabiola Castelmeyer In this episode, Kapo Turnberg is visited on the Mohawk Indian reservation by the agent of the recording company, Fabiola Castelmeyer. They review a spreadsheet of Kapo's recent non-profits from his new mosquito music. Kapo reveals that a tree has cheated him out of his banjo in a card game. Fabiola lifts the curse with use of her sister's lemonade. Time proceeding backwards, we see the business correspondence between the two and meet Fabiola's sisters. © 2020 Mrs William Horsley

With Jodi-GayCooper, Tony Groutsis, Jack Reese, filmed at the Windjammer. © 2020 Mrs William Horsley

A flipbook where a dog learns perspective.

With Brian Belott, Kade McClements, Jack Lawler, and Jack Reese © 2020 Mrs William Horsley

16mm silent film 1999

After successful forays into the visual arts, the CIA began to infiltrate “Easy Listening” music around 1959. They secretly funded many favorite artists as a way to bolster American global dominance, & replace European classical music with Muzak. Many "Easy Listening" artists reflected American colonialism in their Hawaiian or Polynesian imagery. The CIA saw potential for weaponized sound in Erik Satie’s Vexations, an infamous piano piece that repeats a simple phrase 840 times, requiring 3 days to perform... One member of the Edith Piaf Fan Club (a romantic graffiti collective) with a toothache, is turned into ethereal gas by a dentist. An X-Ray tech tries to break the news and now investigative journalists are searching for the missing records. As human dogs walk the inverted world, only the Living Newspapers, swaying like trees in a park, have the chance to remember the whole story on their paper pulp bodies.

A chauffeur drives a court stenographer around.