Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is an incredibly faithful-looking adaptation of the classic holiday TV special at The Center For Puppetry Arts in...
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I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
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European Buildings built out of paper by Megan Brain.
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Hand craved foam puppet head by Phil Fletcher.
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Simpsons couch gag animated by John K.
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This is a couple who perform in the New York City subway system together; he plays an accordion while she performs a ballerina puppet made from a plastic...
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Thanks to an incredible number of submissions from all of you wonderful readers and being busy with a few different film projects in recent weeks, I've once again fallen hopelessly behind with interesting things from world of puppet film and video. So once again, here's a quick weekend puppet catch...
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This is a trailer for Heather Henson's Panther and Crane, a beautiful-looking fusion of puppetry, dance and animated...
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While I'm still mired in lots of work, the pace will be slowing down a bit starting this week and I'm hoping to get back to regular blogging soon. In the meantime, here's some interesting news and notes from the world of...
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Well, it looks like I’m insane lucky enough to be extremely busy this month, with not one, not two, but three film projects on the go. I was already shooting a documentary about puppetry and in development on another film (more about those projects hopefully soon!), but I’ve just had a new project land in...
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Have you heard about Imaginocean in New York yet? It's a black light puppet musical Created by John Tartaglia that's been playing off-Broadway to strong reviews since ??....
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Over at Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow writes: Last week in Toronto, I happened upon a delightful busker hidden inside a puppet theater that advertised “Improv Song on Demand.” As Alice and I stood before it, a puppet emerged and offered us a song. Alice asked for a song about Star Trek and got this gem.”...
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This is some rare footage of An Unusual Concert, a production directed by Russian Master Puppeteer Sergey Obraztsov that was originally staged in 1946 (this appears to be from a remounting in the early 1970s). Rod puppetry is sometimes thought of as being very stiff and inexpressive, but you can see lots of wonderful movement...
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My first professional puppetry job was with Famous PEOPLE Players (FPP) back in the mid-to-late `90s. A big part of their act has always been using Bunraku-style black light puppetry to pay homage to famous artists (hence the name “Famous PEOPLE Players”) and they do puppets of celebrities just about as well as anyone out...
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Some stunningly beautiful and graceful puppetry by Hungarian puppeteer Andres...
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One of the most popular puppets on YouTube has got to be Achmed The Dead Terrorist, a creation of Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham. Achmed is a brilliant idea for a character - even if Jeff's humour is sometimes questionable - but what I think really makes audiences respond to Achmed is the way Jeff performs him,...
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