Rebekah Caputo Talk

Puppeteer.

Puppetry - for anything inanimate to appear alive.
- Why puppets? Magic! Animism
- Not restricted by human form
Acting course, theatre-ish - think about the whole stage characterisation
'Faulty optic' ---> invisible thread.
Create whole worlds on the stage, be in control of everything. A year at home making and learning puppets ---> little performance venue etc. Audience feels different with puppet/acting. Used her as landscape w/costume.

Odd doll puppetry - make shows for touring ---> always creating something to sell. Adults and children. Shadow art b/c BGT ---> popularity of shadow puppet workshop going up so she held some herself.
Dabbling with shadow puppet film ---> w/ a quiet word (shadow puppet company) experiment = collab with dancer. Use shadow, puppet, silhouette, project as installation. 'Importance of sharing my practice''
---> Night called 'Animate Live' - puppeteers, musicians, improvised performance. MA student at LCA - figure out what she does, 'celebrating the darkness within' ---> validating yourself - THE UNCANNY 'combining objects and puppets'/ Made an idea that didn't work so now trying again. Collab- important.


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Though puppeteering isn't really relevant to my practice (and I don't think that I would like to design for puppets), some of the things that she mentioned acting wise was interesting, and I like her idea of creating whole worlds on the stage and being in control of everything, along with using herself as the landscape with the costume. Finding other ways for the puppets to interact could be good to think about when it comes to creating and designing for animation, especially or more experimental animation.