(photo: Sidat de Silva)
Looking for a Monster is based on an original puppet play written by a thirteen year old boy, Hanus Hachenburg in the Terezin concentration camp in 1943, shortly before his transportation to the Auschwitz Death Camp. In 1999, puppeteer Gary Friedman discovered the play in a Jerusalem archive. It was performed for […]
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Take a look at Professor Litmus Lenticular III’s photoset of wonderful zany shadow puppet characters.
The Sydney Morning Herald today talks to Raymond Crowe, a self-described ‘unusualist’ - ventriloquist, magician and hand shadow puppeteer from Adelaide - who, after 26 years in the business, has found at least temporary fame on YouTube with his Helpmann Awards shadow performance of Louise Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World:
Sean Kenan, another Australian hand shadow […]
Kim Carpenter’s highly regarded Theatre of Image has a new production called Lulie the Iceberg, an international collaboration featuring the shadow puppetry of shadow puppet masters from Tokyo’s Kagebushi Theatre Company. You can see a cool behind-the-scenes video of one of their development workshops if you take the ‘teachers’ link on their site. (Sorry, it’s […]
Jasper Morello on SBS this Friday!
Posted in animation, film, puppetry, puppets, tv on Mar 4th, 2006
The Gothia Gazette is reporting that The Mysterious Geographic Adventures of Jasper Morello, nominated for Best Animated Sort in the Academy Awards, will be screening on SBS on this Friday 10th March at 8.00pm. The DVD of Jasper Morello, including a ‘making of’ featurette and other award winning films by director Anthony Lucas will be […]
The Mysterious Explorations of Jasper Morello
Posted in animation, film, puppetry, puppets on Dec 4th, 2005
Another winner in the recent Australian Film Institute Awards was The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello, which picked up Best Short Animation, and Oustanding Achievement in Craft in a Non-Feature, Production Design, for the director, Anthony Lucas. It caught my attention not only because it looks cool, but because it’s another example of the […]
The Theft of Sita
Posted in books, puppetry, puppets, theatre on Nov 23rd, 2005
(Photograph: Julian Crouch)
PuppetVision recently referred to The Modern Shadow where Michelle Zacharia is exploring combining Indonesian Wayang Golek puppetry and video and digital production techniques, and thinking about western influences in Indonesia. It reminded me of a production here called The Theft of Sita which was commissioned by the 2000 Adelaide Festival of Arts and […]
Insanely Twisted Shadow Puppets
Posted in animation on Nov 22nd, 2005
Michael Gagne recently released a first series of short director’s cuts animations, Insanely Twisted Shadow Puppets, that he created for Nickelodeon’s 2005 Halloween. For example, Nightmare is great. There is a short production diary, too. These are done in Flash, and looking at them it’s easy to see why puppetry and animation are so closely […]