I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
Steve the Vampire’s Mom finds Jesus in the latest puppet short from Elmwood Productions. Just out is Steve The Vampire, Whose Mom Finds Jesus. As I’ve mentioned before, I really like these and I hope Elmwood keeps `em...
South African puppeteer Gary Friedman has uploaded a series of films about African puppetry to YouTube. It’s not often we hear about indigenous African puppetry in the West and it’s even rarer to actually see examples of it, so it’s very exciting to see a collection of Indigenous African puppetry films on YouTube. These were...
Steve the Vampire Who Works At The Grocery Store is new from Elmwood Productions. New is Steve The Vampire Who Works At The Grocery Store from Elmwood Productions. I really like these Steve the Vampire shorts. As I wrote before, Vampires have been done to death, but I like Steve a lot and the concept...
Some rare videos from a course Jim Henson taught at the Institute International de la Marionnette in France in 1987 have recently been posted to YouTube. Twenty years ago Jim Henson taught a Puppetry for Film and Television course at the Institute International de la Marionnette in Charleville Mezieres, France. About twenty puppeteers from around...
More short films starring Steve the Vampire are coming soon. The vampire puppet genre seems to be pretty well covered. In addition to famous characters like The Count and Count Blah there’s also lesser-known ones like the previously-blogged TVTV and Ask A Vampire (I’ve had a vampire puppet idea on the back burner for a...
The Monkey Boys have a brand new short called Pet Monster. Pet Monster is short film with a hairy twist. It’s new from The Monkey Boys. Thanks to Scott at Monkey Boys for the...
A new video by experimental electronica artist Nodern makes great use of a great looking puppet. Oh diamond diamond thou little knowest the mischief thou hast done is a weird, trippy and very cool video by experimental electronica artist Nodern that features an amazing-looking jackal puppet (well, I think it’s supposed to be a jackal...
In Private is a beautifully crafted puppet short by Jason Von Hinezmeyer. You may not know the name Jason Von Hinezmeyer (formerly Jason Hines), but he’s been involved in some really interesting puppetry work at The Center For Puppetry Arts in Atlanta for the past few years. As part of this year’s XPT (Experimental Puppet...
Drunken, spaced out aliens from the new fox reality series On The Lot. On The Lot is a new reality-competition show executive produced by Steven Spielberg and (Survivor creator) Mark Burnett. The show features a cast of undiscovered filmmakers competing for a million dollar development deal at DreamWorks. Essentially, it’s American Idol for moviemakers. One...
After a two weeks of uneven posting my inbox is stuffed with lots of puppet film and video stuff to wade through. Here’s a quick look at some of it: Axtell Expressions is running a video contest called The Axtell Video Challenge. If you own an Axtell puppet you can enter by making a video...
For personal reasons I’m taking a brief break from the blog, but don’t worry I will be back posting by the middle or end of next week. Until then, check out this fun new video from PuppetGreetings.com featuring Sean Johnson and Kevin Carlson (link via Puppet...
Bob from Accounting decides to make a statement. A puppet decides to make a political statement. Brought to you by the good folks at...