Let’s Hope He’ll Be Back
Using only a basket of sewing scraps, Javier Aranda’s two hands become puppets who give us stories without words: deeply human, tender, and funny.
Freedom or Death
This six minute video by Philippe Genty offers the ultimate version of one of puppetry’s deepest tropes: the puppet as existential prisoner of his strings.
Cie Gare Centrale
Agnes Limbos And The Power of Objects
In Limbos’ crazy world, objects come and go in an arbitrary fashion; in “real” life they appear to offer security, but here they take over.
Les Sages Fous
UA shabby performer in black or grey opens battered barrels and suitcases; eerie, bunraku-style puppets emerge from these unlikely habitats to reveal their strange beauty.
Objects and Banksy: Sirens of the Lambs
Banksy has taken a series of familiar objects—the cuddly animal toys familiar to us as children—and he’s placed them in a radically new context, with shocking results.
Erik Sanko
I love this piece. It’s disquieting in all the right ways. It plays with different levels of reality—or more accurately, unreality.