I've always really liked the lo-fi Steve The Vampire shorts by Elwood Productions, so it would be remiss of me not to mention their latest, Steve The Vampire Goes to A Role-Playing...
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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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About a month ago I was in Winnipeg for the Plastic Paper festival of animated, illustrated and puppet film. One of the festival's highlights was a special "best of" edition of Heather Henson's Handmade Puppet Dreams that featured one of the first public screenings of Yamasong, a puppet short directed by Sam K....
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I just watched two clips from the upcoming NFB adaptation of the Maurice Sendack classic Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life and I haven't been this excited to see a puppet film in awhile. It's directed by Canadian filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski who previously directed the acclaimed stop motion...
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Puppetables are a series of videos featuring puppets made by German puppet builder extraordinaire Norman Schneider. Due to the language barrier, I really don’t know much else about these, but there are three videos in the series, Marie Luise Sparbier, Schildegart Kröt and my personal favourite, Wurmini. Via Puppeteers...
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Puppet Heap brings the classic tale of Old Mother Hubbard to life in a short film. Enjoy Old Mother Hubbard by the always-outstanding Puppet Heap (see previous post). Subscribe to their new Heapcast to get updated whenever they post new...
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Omar’s Mother is a 2006 short film by Puppet Heap. I just watched Omar’s Mother, a short film about “a boy, his Mother and the worm who brings them closer together.” It was directed by Paul Andrejco of Puppet Heap back in 2006 and is one of best puppet shorts I have seen in a...
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Bill Cosby turns John Madden into Santa Claus and starts a holiday tradition in the mildly warped Celebrity Bric-a-Brac Theatre: The First Christmas. For all of you out there who are fans of found object puppetry, Christmas and Bill Cosby I present Celebrity Bric-a-Brac Theatre: The First Christmas from Blame Society Films (the folks behind...
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Are you a guy who can’t get a date? Are you lonely? Single? Pathetic? Well then, you need to learn the ways of wooing women from B.B. Wolf, Love...
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Today is 666. More specifically, it’s 06/06/06, which only comes once-in-a-century. Since as of noon Eastern Time there’s no sign of the start of Armageddon (the birth of Shiloh notwithstanding) I figure that it’s probably safe and super-appropriate to link to one of my all-time favourite puppet films, Hot Headed Chap by the guys at...
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Napoleon narrates George Bush’s plot to invade the evil Inuit Arctic regime in Napoleon’s History of the World. The Grogs are my favourite Canadian puppetry company and co-founder Jamie Shannon (see previous post) terrific 2004 short film Napoleon’s History of the World has been posted over at Atomfilms. It pokes fun at George Bush and...
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We Are The Stems is one of the best puppet films made last year. A 12 minute faux-documentary produced by the British filmmaking/puppetry collective Up At The Big House it aired on the UK’s Channel 4 in December and is now available on the web. “Ztems” does a nice job of blurring the line between...
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I found out the name of the puppeteer in Santa Claus’ Punch and Judy – George Prentice, a Punch puppeteer mentioned in Bil Baird’s classic book The Art of the Puppet. The film is available for sale from Puppetstuff as part of a VHS holiday compilation called The Night Before Christmas that also includes another...
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