Movies: Puppetry

An unsold TV pilot based on the classic comic strip, shot by Jim Henson with puppets built by Don Sahlin....

Cartoon rabbit Oswald puts on a live-action puppet show....

A quiet bus ride home from the city library turns into an aural nightmare for a book-reading commuter. With every stop the bus fills with people and sounds, becoming a chaotic cacophony joyful to everyone but her. Only when the bus finally reaches he...

Two strangers. Two personalities. One hand-made secret....

The story of the acquaintance of two dads - a boy and a teddy bear. One dad did not have time to buy a Christmas tree and went to the forest to get it, and dad-bear went to the city to look for toys for the forest Christmas tree. That's how they met....

Aldo has always felt like a being from another planet, stranded on Earth. His autism and long struggle to speak fluently alienated him from others. Now, he searches for meaning in the esoteric and for connection with people like himself....

Stick Stickly and his family find his uncle's uniskate and Stick begins to take a whack at rollerskating....at least until something goes terribly wrong! Will Stick find a solution to the sticky situation?...

first stop motion animation puppet film by Eric Leiser completed in 2001. The film is a visual poem on Christ's command for believers to: deny self, pick up the cross daily and follow after Him. Matthew 16:24...

A stop-motion adaptation of the 1981 novel by geologist Dougal Dixon of the same name, which explores the speculative paths of evolution of modern animals into the far future....

In 1992, an independent South African puppetry group, the African Research and Educational Puppetry Program, were invited by OXFAM (Canada) to bring their highly successful educational program 'Puppets Against Aids' to tour rural and regional Canada ...

The crusades come to life in Egyptian artist Wael Shawky’s beautiful Cabaret Crusades. Inspired by the writings of Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf, Shawky’s film trilogy explores the horrors of the medieval holy wars in the Middle-East – from an Arab pe...

Radio host and cyber hacker Skinny Mike and his assistant Crutch are asked to hack the Datadyne Corporation by a mysterious client. Created to promote Brain Dead and Gotcha's collaboration for a surf-inspired collection....

Robotic historians recount and examine the events leading up to the annihilation of humanity....

When Stick Stickly learns of his long-lost twin brother Wood Knot from his mother, he heads to New York City in order to find him. Will they ever reunite again?...

A monkey who works as a private eye picks up his next big case. Will he crack it, or will it crack him?...

Documentary about Jirí Trnka and how he works....

This is Gary, interviewer of the stars! Tonight he is going backstage to one of the most celebrated television shows in history, it has delighted millions of fans across the globe with its charm and its sweetness! You've seen the Show, you've loved t...

MANOS: The Hands of Felt is a puppet musical re-imagining of the cult classic MANOS: The Hands of Fate. The film's story of a family vacation gone horribly wrong combines with the backstage drama of a movie shoot gone horribly wrong to tell the bizar...

Set to the song Paranoimia by Art of Noise, Misha struggles to fall asleep until two unseen helpers arrive....

The residents of a building have found novel ways to enter and exit as their front door is broken. However, once the door is repaired they continue to avoid the door....