I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
This is a nearly 50 year old film produced by Jim Henson that was recently rediscovered and released online by AT&T. Robot is one Jim Henson’s business films from the 1960s, it was shot in 1963 for an elite seminar organized for business owners on the then-brand-new topic of Data Communications. From the video’s YouTube...
Santa in Animal Land is a vintage - and somewhat infamous - Christmas puppet film from...
If you don’t know the work of Puppet Heap, you should. In addition to doing lots of work on all kinds of different film and television projects, they’re also now responsible for building the Muppets. Just that alone would be enough, but the Hoboken, New Jersey based puppet shop has branched out in to toys,...
Adam Bizanski is an Israeli filmmaker who works in live action, animation and now puppetry. I really like his...
Kevin McTurk sent me this trailer for his film The Narrative of Victor Karloch, which is the latest film commissioned by Heather Henson for her Handmade Puppet Dreams series. I can't wait to see the entire...
The Panda Rabbit is a really cool mash-up of puppetry, stop-motion…and a giant panda suit. It’s the debut film of Randy D. Rosario and, if this film is any indication what he can do, he’s a filmmaker who is really worth keeping an eye on. Here’s a fascinating look behind-the-scenes to see how he made...
Last week we took a quick look at WarSheep and An Attic Full of Puppets, two puppetry projects that are looking for support via crowdfunding. I wanted to follow those up with Cicada Princess, a beautiful looking film that’s currently in production thanks to a very successful fundraising campaign on Kickstarter. Cicada Princess is actually...
Those short films from the 2011 O'Neill Puppetry Conference a couple weeks ago were very popular, so here's another one...The Spy! was directed by Tim Lagasse and shot as part of a Marionette Performance for Film class taught by Philip Hubner....
I saw The Execution of Margot Rumebe last week and fell in love with it. It was made by the Old Trout Puppet Workshop in collaboration with filmmaker Simon Dekker and Michael Green of Calgary, Alberta's acclaimed One Yellow Rabbit Theatre....
Bunraku-style puppetry gets the silent film treatment in Unrequited Love, a great little short from the UK’s Flabbergast...
This week's posts about Video Anarchy at the O'Neill Puppetry Conference have generated a lot of interest, so here's a couple more to finish off the...
Suit is another film that was made at Video Anarchy during last week's O'Neill Puppetry Conference. It was directed by Broaderick (Ben) Jones, who's best known for his puppet web series...