Life in Motion and Simple Gifts show off the incredible work of the Cashore Marionettes.

For a long time I didn’t care much for marionettes. It wasn’t that I ever thought there was anything wrong with string puppets per se, it was just that I’ve always been a big fan of very precise, technical and realistic puppetry and until several years ago I hadn’t seen much marionette work that was really impressive.

Thankfully, I was eventually exposed to the work of people like Basil Twist (see previous post) and Joseph Cashore that took away my ignorance. I’m a particularly big fan of the Cashore Marionettes. There really is no substitute for seeing them live, but for those that haven’t yet had the pleasure they have a couple of new-ish videos – Life in Motion and Simple Gifts – that give you a taste of their amazing work.