MoMI presents an exhibition of material related to Jane Schoenbrun’s film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. In this meta exploration of the slasher film genre, a queer filmmaker (Hannah Einbinder) is tasked with resurrecting a 1980s/’90s-era horror franchise about supernatural murders at a sleepaway camp, and seeks out the film’s original, reclusive “final girl” (Gillian Anderson) for inspiration.
The Museum’s installation will pair screen-used props from the fictional Camp Miasma franchise—VHS tapes, posters, merchandise, and a costume—with a series of movie posters selected by Schoenbrun, which include Psycho (1960), Sleepaway Camp (1983), and Dressed to Kill (1980). The posters, with descriptive text by Schoenbrun, illuminate the sources the filmmaker drew upon, each of which contribute to the genre’s complex representation of gender, desire, and sexual deviance.
The exhibition opened July 30, ahead of the film’s theatrical release on August 7. It will be on view in the Museum’s ground-floor Founders Hall and will feature approximately 35 objects; admission is free.
Museum of the Moving Image