Hilary Talbot’s passing interests and activities
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre, video on Jan 4th, 2007
Two video clips at YouTube of that cool puppet in Berlin that I blogged about in October!
Puppet Run
Titere Andante
Still no clue as to who the performer group is.
Posted in puppetry, puppets, street theatre on Oct 6th, 2006
(photo credit: irlLordy, used with permission - thanks!)
irlLordy took a great sequence (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) of photos of a cool puppet entertaining the queue on the steps of the Reichstag in Berlin recently. I really like the aethetic, and it’s interesting to see a bunraku-style puppet being operated on such long rods. The [...]
Tyger is a terrific short film directed by Guilherme Marcondes. While William Blake’s poem, The Tyger, was the starting point, it ‘doesn’t attempt to illustrate or pay homage to the original text’. Marcondes interprets the tiger as symbolizing ‘a hint of wonder along with a fear of progress. The tiger is as much dangerous as [...]
Here is a fabulous game of ping pong, Matrix style. According to Puppetry Films’, it appeared on a Japanese Game Show to help celebrate the opening of the Matrix. Isn’t puppetry amazing?
Posted in make, portfolio, puppetry, puppets, theatre on Jun 21st, 2005
The bunraku-style puppets I was working on are for production called ‘See Beneath’, being presented by Hidden Corners Theatre, Canberra’s award-winning theatre company of young carers. This is how the puppets turned out:
‘See Beneath’ is a play by and about young people dealing with disability in their families, directed by Robin Davidson and barb barnett, [...]
Posted in make, portfolio, puppetry, puppets on Jun 3rd, 2005
I’m making some bunraku-style puppets at the moment. They are about 60cm tall. I’ve just got to the stage where they are more-or-less complete in construction and movement, but still rough in finish. This is a stage I love - there is something very aesthetically pleasing about it - and I think it would be [...]