Tag Archives: Canadian puppetry

Feb201026

Andrew

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Higglety Pigglety Pop

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 film Madame Tutli-Putli. Higglety Pigglety Pop is done in a hybrid style that’s very similar to Tutli-Putli, utilizing live-action puppets, actors, animation and digital manipulation.

Nov200922

Andrew

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Puppet Improv

While I wasn’t blogging over the summer, I was doing a series of improv puppetry workshops and rehearsals with Unraku. It was a really interesting, challenging experience because while I consider myself a pretty decent puppeteer, I’m terrible at improv. Fortunately, Stacey was teaching us and she’s always devastatingly funny and a blast to work [...]

Mar200911

Andrew

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Öko

Öko is a short marionette film set in “post-apocalyptic world hanging by a string”.
Öko is a short Québécois film directed by Alain Fournier about an unusual encounter between a squatter girl and her mysterious neighbor. Set in a “post-apocalyptic world hanging by a string”, the film was produced using marionettes created by Mathieu René. The [...]

Feb200925

Andrew

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Big and Small

Big and Small work to coexist and understand each other in the preschool series Big and Small.
Big and Small is a new Canadian/U.K. co-production for preschoolers featuring puppets by the Grogs (of Mr. Meaty and Nanalan’ fame) that debuted this week here in Canada. It’s a brilliantly simple concept built around two best friends who [...]

Feb200922

Andrew

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Hoggworks’ True Tales of Puppetry

Having a conversation with a puppet while building a new version of the same puppet is either very meta, or very weird.
This morning I was at Podcamp and sat in on Brian Hogg’s Puppetry of the Podcast presentation (it was streamed live on the web and a recording should be online soon). It was a [...]

Dec200827

Andrew

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Funky Fingers

Funky Fingers is an example of Mr. Bunk’s original style of shadow puppetry.
Here’s a funky shadow video from Canadian puppeteer Mr. Bunk. Enjoy!

Nov200813

Andrew

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Puppet Video Flame War

Video blogger Loren Feldman took exception to having his work critiqued by fellow puppeteer/videoblogger Brian Hogg earlier this week.
A funny little story developed earlier this week…it seems that Brian Hogg wrote a post about taking puppetry seriously that singled out videoblogging puppeteer Loren Feldman for criticism. Loren fired back with an angry response (read the [...]

Oct200831

Andrew

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Classic Canadian Puppetry: Size Small

Size Small was a popular Canadian children’s television series in the 1980s.
Well, perhaps classic isn’t quite the word for it, but I watched Size Small all the time when I was growing up. I hadn’t thought about this show for years, but I recently saw a mention of it on Kristen McGregor’s blog and it [...]

Oct200828

Andrew

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Honey Honey From Feist and The Old Trouts

The new Feist video Honey Honey was created in collaboration with the Old Trout Puppet Workshop.
Feist’s much anticipated video for Honey Honey was released last week. The video features puppetry by The Old Trout Puppet Workshop, one of Canada’s most acclaimed puppetry companies.
For more on the Old Trouts visit their web site www.theoldtrouts.org.

Oct200824

Andrew

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The Emperor Strikes Back (at all who steal his dessert)

In the latest Ask Palpatine, the Emperor wants the rebels to stop stealing his pie.
Depending on your feelings towards/knowledge of Star Wars, you may or may not enjoy Ask Palpatine. If you fall in to the first category, check out its latest wonderfully surreal episode.

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