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Article: Looking at light and shadows: the embrace of artifice in film and puppet theatre paves the way for the creation of ephemeral attractions.(Janie Geiser, Cotsen Center for Puppetry and the Arts)(Critical Essay)
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- American Theatre
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- February 1, 2004
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Film and theatre are both ephemeral forms. Film exists inside our minds, as the brain combines and decodes a succession of reflected images. Theatre exists only for a particular moment and then vanishes from our view, as the audience and performers reenter the quotidian world. Film is a disembodied form--it lives only as intangible, projected light. Like the Invisible Man in the 1933 James Whale movie starring Claude Rains, film is in the room and yet has no physical substance.
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A puppet, on the other hand, is entirely substance. In performance, we project life onto this physical object, in a kind of ...
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