International Puppet Underground Film Festival presents Handmade Puppet Dreams

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IPUFF dedicates this screening to Heather’s mother Jane Henson, co-creator of the Muppets. Jane passed away on April 2, after a lifetime commitment to promoting the art of puppetry.

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by Tony Giordano, Jason Murphy & Scott Shoemaker 2005 - 15 min. harkermovie.com

JUNK PALACE

by Lyon Hill 2006 - 14:17 min mermecolion.com Using elaborate paper puppets, Junk Palace takes you into the world of real-life hoarders the Collyer brothers and imagines what life was like for these unique individuals. • Lyon has been a puppetmaker and puppeteer with the Columbia Marionette Theatre since 1997. His paintings and puppets have been shown in numerous galleries and his puppet shows have been performed at regional and national puppet festivals.

This retelling of the story of Jonathan Harker was fashioned as homage to German Expressionist silent films. It recreates the mood and feel of these films by using expressionless puppets and exuding their emotions with camera work, lighting, music, and skillful puppetry. • Tony, a performer / writer, Jason, a photographer / cinematographer, and Scott, an accomplished PROJECT HUXLEY artist and puppet builder all reside in Orlando, Florida.

by Simon A. Brown By taking these strengths and putting them together, 2005 - 11 min the trio has been able to form a strong team that can projecthuxley.com accomplish something that they all have in common...

Huxley is a monkey imprisoned in a lab, forced to take the need to entertain. part in a "Monkey typing Shakespeare" experiment by a FINGER PUPPETS sadistic lab assistant. Secretly, he harbors dreams of EVERYWHERE playing Hamlet, but can he escape from his tormentors

by Laura Heit and embrace his theatrical dreams? • Simon A. Brown has worked in TV for a number of years as a Producer, Director 2005 - 7@10 sec and Writer at Nickelodeon UK. This is his first short film lauraheit.com and he is currently working on a feature film.

Live action spots featuring hand-made finger-puppets through out the entirety of the program. • Laura Heit received her MA from Royal College of Art in London where she made the puppet film "Mary Inning and her Monsters". She recently completed a new animated film "Look for Me" about an invisible girl, commissioned by Channel 4 Television London.

UNICYCLE BABY GUY

by Matty Sidle 1997 -12 short 20 sec.films mattysidle.com Absurd black & white mini films starring Unicycle Baby Guy, the nicest little chap who, waist-down, is a unicycle. All he wants to do is make friends with the galaxy's other creatures, but problem is, all he gets is his tire flattened. His only support comes from his best-estest friend ever, a talking Shoulder. • Matty Sidle creates characters and stories for his alternate worlds in the realm of short films, animation, music videos and advertising. He studied filmmaking at RISD and loves working in mediums that help get his humorous and absurd sensibility across.

OMAR’S MOTHER

by Paul Andrejco and Puppet Heap 2006 - 9:20 min puppetheap.com The story of a Boy, his Mother, and the Worm that brings them closer together. • Paul Andrejco worked for several years with Henson Studios. He is the founder of Puppet Heap, a New York-based company that designs and builds puppets for television and film.

DANTE'S INFERNO (excerpt)

by Sean Meredith 2006 - 1:30 min (excerpt of feature) dantefilm.com Performed in epic toy theater style, using paper puppets and sets, Dante’s Inferno is a satirical update of the classic tour of Hell. Its venue is the familiar places of modern civilization: mini malls, airports, gated communities, used car lots, and the U.S. capitol. • Sean recently finished his first feature film after years of juggling filmmaking, editing, and moonlighting as a vintage dishware expert.

He directed and edited the 2003 film In Smog and Thunder: The Great War of the Californias.

DOUCE DAME

by Bradley Kemp 2009 - 4:34 min. www.catapultparlor.com A young painter, obsessed with his muse, continually paints a memory of her... until she lures him away.

• Brad Kemp is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and programmer. He specializes in the education technology sector and music/arts space. Brad regularly manages/directs collaborative projects and crossfunctional groups.

I’LL FORGET YOU

by Natasha Pincus 2009 - 3:14 min starkravingproductions.com.au A single-shot music video that tells a story symbolic of that told in the song I’ll Forget You.The 'lovers' in the video are continually brought together and pulled apart until the man concedes to continue living as he had started out: on his own. • Scriptwriter Natasha Pincus has written and directed many short films and began making award-winning music videos in 2007. She was invited to participate in the feature film project “140” as one of 140 international directors chosen to make a short film simultaneously worldwide (inspired by the Twitter concept), and has recently directed an experimental short called ARIETTA, which will soon be launched online.

INNER CITY

by Alain Fournier 2010 - 8:21 innercity-film.com A boy with only pigeons for company tries to seduce his remote neighbor with wacky inventions.• Alain Fournier is particularly interested with the supernatural drama genre, where the atmospheres are always featured. His first short film Of Mother and Tides (À Mères et Marées) won several awards (Fantasia, Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, Trouville-sur-Mer). His second film (ÔKO), filmed as well with puppets, was nominated for the 2010 Jutra Award (Quebec, Canada) for Best Animation. Inner City (La Cité entre les Murs) is his second essay with puppets.

MAGICAL SNIFFY THING

by Jamie Shannon 2010 - 2:54 min jamieshannon.ca When you’re lost and hungry, make a wish to meet the Magical Sniffy Thing. • Jamie Shannon is a Toronto born artist that specializes in bringing things to life. He teaches workshops, creates events of public intervention and hosts gallery spaces. Jamie is also a writer, director and producer of films and television. Most recently, he built two life-size Cheetah puppets for the Art Gallery of Ontario.

THE CURSE

by Liam Hurley 2005 - 5:05 min liamhurley.com The Curse is a waltz with a love story between an archaeologist and her mummy. • Lian Hurley is a musician who in 2002 joined Puppets in the Parks, a traveling marionette show that performs over 300 shows a year in NYC schools and parks. Liam was also fortunate enough to perform in Erik Sanko's "The Fortune Teller," which met with rave reviews and sold out audiences.

HIGGLEY PIGGELTY POP!

by Chris Lavis & Maciaek Szczerbowski 2010 - 24:00 min clydehenry.com Based on the Maurice Sendak children's book of the same title, this short film tells the fictional adventures of a dog named Jennie. Featuring the voices of Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker and Spike Jonze. • Clyde Henry Productions is a Montreal-based film company specializing in multimedia, stop-motion animation and visual effects. Their first professional film, “Madame Tutli-Putli”, produced by the NFB, received two awards at Cannes and a 2007 Academy Award nomination. In 2010 they released this film and L’Anneé de L’Os, a 7-minute animated short.

TIME MACHINE

by Vincent Bova 2010 - 4:52 min gloveandboots.com Fafa builds a time machine and his dear friend Mario deals with the ripple effects on the space-time continuum. • Glove and Boots is a place on the internet where lots of puppets live. Mario and Fafa the Groundhog are two of them.