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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This is a very ambitious marionette video for the song Modern Times by funk rockers 100 Monkeys. It features some gorgeous-looking marionettes that were made by Alexander Mergold and performed by Scott Land (assisted by Keith Land) as well as some very impressive miniature sets that were built on a tight budget. The video’s director...
The Smurfs opens in theatres today here in North America. Deborah Glassberg and James Wojtal Jr. designed and built these marionettes of Papa Smurf and Smurfette for one of the film's opening...
Award winning documentary maker Richard Butchins was attending a party last January when he made the acquaintance of an older gentleman named Frank. Over the course of their conversation Frank casually mentioned that he “used to be in show business a bit,” and revealed a cupboard full of old cans of film. Richard eventually realized...
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 love simple, beautiful, life-like puppetry. Kawasemiza - a Japanese puppetry company that tours internationally - seems to do a lot of that....
A look at the creative process of Geahk Burchill, founder of The Cast Iron Carousel Marionette...
This is a new ad that's been running for the past month or so in the UK for Diet Coke featuring three fashionista marionette characters named Eleanor, Bernadette and Irene who "Love It...
Since I'm currently sidelined with a back injury, this commercial for Robaxacet seemed like an appropriate thing to...
I'm really intrigued by the possibilities that Multi-touch devices like the iPad might offer puppeteers in the near future. Several developers are exploring exactly that and looking for ways to combine puppetry and interactive...
This is the last post of the decade and I think it's a good one...a music video of the Portland Cello Project performing Gideon Freudmann's "Denmark"....
Osamu Tezuka famously created Astro Boy. Less well known is his work in live action, specifically the 1960s Japanese puppet sci-fi series Galaxy Boy...
Thanks to an incredible number of submissions from all of you wonderful readers and being busy with a few different film projects in recent weeks, I've once again fallen hopelessly behind with interesting things from world of puppet film and video. So once again, here's a quick weekend puppet catch...
