With puppets, projectors and live performances, Manual Cinema creates surreal movies as the audience watches the process unfold. Video shot and edited by Eric Krupke The black silhouette of a girl’s ...
Shadow puppetry, also known as "shadow play," is a traditional form of storytelling through the medium of flat articulated, elaborately engraved figures. Manipulating them with silken strings and ...
An Emmy Award-winning performance collective is making a second appearance at the Spoleto Festival since being founded back in 2010. Manual Cinema has been an innovative force in the shadow puppet ...
She’s taking her secrets to the graves. A spooky puppet show in Williamsburg will explore the shadowy after-hours world of Green-Wood Cemetery. “Secrets of Green-Wood,” debuting at the Brick Theater ...
Editor's note: China's shadow puppetry is a form of theater. It uses silhouette figures made from leather or paper to perform traditional plays against an illuminated cloth screen. It was inscribed on ...
After watching his first-ever performance as a child, Ida Bagus Putera Baruna was mesmerised by Indonesia’s ancient Wayang theatre Putera tells SCENES that after sharing his enthusiasm with his family ...
COLUMBIA, Md. — Ever wonder where all those overhead projectors from elementary school ended up? While most are probably buried in the landfill under years of newer technology, a fair amount are now ...