Masked actors wearing elaborate, feathered costumes manipulated puppets behind a large 15-by-30-foot screen, creating dancing shadows and silhouettes that told an ancient story of love and war. Hamid ...

With nearly 1,168 cues and 140 animation “cuts,” Rahmanian compares the live shadow play to a film, combining puppets, masks and digital animation to tell the story. “It’s basically a live animation.

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Shadow puppets are accompanied by dancing at Chris Myer's Fire in the Head performance, as part of French Institute Alliance Français's Crossing the Line festival (all photos by Aditi Jhaveri) ...

Alternately soulcrushing and full of hope this 1994 animated short by Chuck Gamble drops us into the Orwellian life of a man whose sole job is to push buttonsand ...