Puppets On Film - December 6 _ 8PM
The Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival brings you an evening of live puppetry captured on film, featuring Handmade Puppet Dreams, Vol 4. This will be a unique screening of an all new volume of films!
HANDMADE PUPPET DREAMS
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IBEX PUPPETRY INC
IBEX Puppetry: IBEX Inc. is an entertainment company dedicated to promoting the fine art of puppetry in all of its various mediums, nuturing work for a myriad of venues including stage, film, and gallery. Company projects include: The Orlando Puppet Festival, environmental theatre spectacles, puppet film series, and gallery exhibits. The film series, Handmade Puppet Dreams is a collection of puppet film shorts by independent artists exploring their handmade craft specifically for the camera. The series has been screened nationally and internationally and has won several awards. HMPD Film Series consists of Volumes I, II, III, "For Kids" and "Highlights". For more information, please visit www.ibexpuppetry.com and www.handmadepuppetdreams.com.
ABOUT THE FILMS
The Whole World And You-2:54
"A lone puppeteer creates a microcosmic box of wonders, into which we travel to witness a world populated by miniature automata enjoying the campaign of a charming candidate "running for the country's highest office" The candidate enjoys the popularity that accompanies his high profile lifestyle, but one lone gunman is not so easily charmed.
This video, created for Ann Arbor, Michigan ex-patriots and current Brooklyn-based quintet Tally Hall (Atlantic Records), is inspired by Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, a densely populated automata arcade located in the band's hometown. "The Whole World and You," the single featured in this official video for Tally Hall, is a quirky ditty composed by the band's Andrew Horowitz."
Director/Producer/Designer: Frankie Cordero
Art Director/Designer: Ken Berman
Director of Photography: Marcus Lehmann
Music: Tally Hall- Written by Andrew Horowitz
BottleStopper - 8:48
The BottleStopper Project
Everybody collects something...I collect animated carved wooden
bottlestoppers from the town of Val Gardena, Italy circa 1930s... I built a
bar for them: A typical neighborhood bar filled with the usual
customers...life is good... until something happens to break their reality.
Wait a minute; was that God? ...Where actually are we? ...and am I, in
turn, being collected?...Martin P. Robinson
Señor Huesos, Just the name implies mystery and evokes the question, what the hell does that even mean? A skeleton and a piñata in the desert trying to stop an evil salsa trade. A Spaghetti-O Western inspired by El Dia De Los Muertos and Sergio Leone films. El Señor must stop the evil General Mexican and his band of banditos before all of the salsa is pumped from the soil of the Calexican desert.
Omar's Mother - 9:19
Directed by Paul Andrejco
The story of a Boy, his Mother and the Worm that brings them closer together.
Maika - Desert Gold
Director/Executive Producer: Rob Saunders
Producer: Francis Kuzler
Octobertwenty Productions Inc.
The premier music video for the Norwegian band "Maika" from their album "Radiation Refill".
"The idea behind the video started with two images, vast desert and this cold oil world. The song is about relationships and those places of betrayal and being let down, so I played with the concept of a lone traveller searching for something unknown. So we shot in the California desert for a few days and then on a soundstage for 4 days. We had the band for only one of those days, so it was a tight shoot schedule. The whole process of developing the puppet style and the overall look of the video was so much fun, and to see it all come together from my initial idea to the completed video was a really huge moment for me as a young director.
SPACE KITTYS IN JAPAN
Space Kittys have come to Earth to play with you! Killer, Katso, Katchoop, and Peenk explore our world and share the fun in their music videos and travel blog. In Space Kittys in Japan, Peenk and Killer pop down to understand what goes on there. They find enthusiastic people who share their love of dancing and skateboarding- once they get over the language barrier! Space Kittys is a public art project created by Anney Fresh and produced by Keith Ozar. www.spacekittys.com
Sammy & Sofa
Tim Lagasse
27 min (2005)
An eight inch tall Mohawk-ed psychic and his pet sofa are the brainchild of puppet artists Tim Lagasse and Jim "Nappy" Napolitano, "Sammy and Sofa" was initially conceived for performance at late night Puppet Slams, and was developed in front of the live audiences.
Tim Lagasse is a graduate of the University of Connecticut's Puppets Arts Program and has been performing, designing puppets and making short films for Nickelodeon and PBS (among many others) for 14 years. Tim has received many awards for his work, including an UNIMA Citation, and some Emmy nominations for his puppet designs and editing. www.timlagasse.com <http://www.timlagasse.com>
A Dog Goes from Here to There-5:50
A colorful, quirky concoction of canine transportation
which ultimately asks the question "how do you go from
here to there?"
Mr Pink and Horsey-- Leat Klingman was born in Israel and currently lives and works in New York. She received her BFA at the University of Haifa, Israel, and her MFA at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Leat has transformed herself from a fine artist to a puppeteer-filmmaker with much joy! Since then she concentrates in creating and telling the stories of magical, fanciful puppets and their realms. Amongst her puppets are - Wolfy the conflicted wolf, Mister Pink the sweetest animalish creature and the graceful white Horsy. She was an artist in residence at Chashama, Makor, and Vermont Studio Center. Her current solo show is held (until Janurary 8th) at the Manchester Craftsmens Guild in Pittsburgh, PA. She has shown her works in Israel, Europe and the States. Her most recent screenings took place at Cowtown Puppetry Festival at Hip Pocket Theater in Texas; NYC Best Short Filmmakers at 3rd Ward in Brooklyn; Video for the Public at Kulturhuset in Stockholm, Sweden; and V-Dance, International Festival for Video Dance at the Cinemateq in Tel-Aviv, Israel. This is her first time to be presenting her work at the Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival, and she is very excited and grateful to be sharing her film with this special audience, in such a unique venue. More of her work can be seen at www.leat.klingman.org
Touch-- Gary Mirabelle TOUCH is my first animated short movie using stop motion. It has been screened at The Big Apple Film Festival in NYC, Nov,2009. Zero Film Festival in LA and NYC, December 2009. and will be part of The Festivas Film Festival in Denver 2010.
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