A player piano plays a composition based on songs from The Who’s Tommy. On screen, footage from three movies with deaf, mute and/or blind characters are woven together in an allegory of sexual violence and sexual liberation. The montage juxtaposes scenes from Johnny Belinda (1948), The Story of Esther Costello (1957), The Miracle Worker (1962), and Tommy (1975).
Permanent Collections
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
- Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Exhibitions
- Jonathan Horowitz/Silent Movie/MATRIX 151, Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA, 2003
- Silent Movie, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, France, 2003
- Silent Movie, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany, 2004
- Silent Movie, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, NY, USA, 2005
- 5 ans, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France, 2005
- Jonathan Horowitz: And/Or, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY, USA, 2009
- A Story of Art. Works from the Yvon Lambert Donation, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France, 2023
