Meeky: The World's
Strangest Little Boy (The Meeky Project)
The Meeky
Project is based on the
disjointed accounts of an Eastern European Jewish child who became
a sideshow sensation during the mid to late 1950s. It explores the
capricious nature of history: mementos kept or discarded; the
perception of historicity; and the perception of The Outsider. It
examines the desire to sensationalize, exploit and abandon as is
prevalent in mass media.
The Meeky Project is presented as a carnival sideshow: a format
reflecting the baser aspects of curiosity on a more experiential
level than contemporary counterparts (i.e. television Reality
Shows). It is a suitable format to portray the life of a lost
carnival star.
On October 4, 2008, The
Meeky Project was
presented for the first time during Toronto's Nuit Blanche. The documentary short
Finding Meeky: A Fragmentary History had its New York premiere at the
9th Coney Island Film Festival in October, 2009.