I’m a filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppeteers and puppetry around the world.
Traditional Taiwanese Puppetry - http://puppetvision.info/2013/06/traditional-taiwanese-puppetry.html
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Youkiza is a 380 (!) year old Japanese Puppet Company - http://puppetvision.info/2013/06/youkiza-a-380-year-old-japanese-puppet-company.html
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The Hampster Dance returns and is highly adorable (UK)
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Punch and Judy Sign
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Creepy Punch
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Punch and Judy Cone Puppets
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Giant puppet engineering
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Effective ad reminding hockey parents to calm down
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This is a trailer for La Cité entre les Murs (Innercity), a short puppet film from Canadian filmmaker Daniel Auclair. It tells the story of "a boy with only pigeons for company (who) tries to seduce his remote neighbor with wacky...
Rock Giant is a short film from filmmaker/puppeteer Chris Heady that features a 10'0 tall puppet (the titular rock...
As most of you know, I’m one of the co-founders of Unraku, a puppetry studio in Toronto that combines the talents of several puppeteers and puppet builders who work in diverse styles of puppetry. All of us there adore the work of Kelly Kirkham (see previous post) – another one of Unraku’s co-founders – who...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Puppet-like CG animated characters dance with French actor Gérard Darmon in Mambo Italiano. There’s lots of great puppetry and puppet-inspired work going on in France. Last week I mentioned Jerome Murat’s amazing Statue Act and I just watched a great video of Mambo Italiano with French actor Gérard Darmon. To see it click here, then...