I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
Puppetry and politics collide once again on YouTube with John Howard: Search For A Scapegoat. John Howard: Search For A Scapegoat is the latest in a series of political puppetry satires from Shan Jayaweera that take aim at the Australian Prime Minister. It’s an election year down under and in Shan’s newest videos John Howard’s...
Toy Theatre inspires Lines on Palms, the latest Josh Pyke music video. Lines on Palms is the video for a recent single from Australian singer Josh Pyke. It’s filled with lots of simple, but very effective puppetry. The whole video looks like it takes place in a wonderfully whimsical giant toy theatre. Thanks to Mike...
When I started writing PuppetVision there was I think exactly one puppet web series – Mario’s Word of The Week – and the term “podcast” didn’t yet apply to videos so it’s pretty incredible that less than three short years later there are now so many people producing shows via video sharing sites like YouTube...
A puppet explains how to make music in How To Make A Beat. I’m not really musically inclined whatsoever and so I actually learned something watching How To Make A Beat, a clever little short film in which a puppet explains how to create music. It’s by an Australian company called Isore Productions and sort...
Students participate in a film/T.V. puppetry workshop at the Sydney Film School in Sydney, Australia. Gary Friedman has been putting lots of clips up on Google Video lately (see previous post), but one in particular that caught my eye was a short promo for Gary’s puppetry workshops at the Sydney Film School in Australia. The...
Gary Friedman and the Sydney Film School are gearing up for more puppetry for film and television courses in 2006 (see also this previous post). Click here for more...
Gary Friedman Productions and the Sydney Film School are presenting a Puppetry for Film and Television Workshop in Sydney beginning next month. Just as was the case for the recent John Targalia workshops in New York (see previous post), space is limited so if you’re in or near Sydney and wanted to attend be sure...