Shadow plays flicker, birds call, and colour leaks into grey walls. In Starlings, live action collides with puppetry and poetic visuals as a teen girl transforms loss into light, reviving the fractured bond with her father through the fragile power of art.
A tartan paint salesperson. A Bridge Salesperson. A connection nobody expected. Bowie Gingham is an ordinary bridge salesperson moonlighting as an actor, and Tansy Felton is a tartan paint salesperson who dreams to create more with paint than just sales. What happens when these two salacious salespeople accidentally pick up the the phone to each other, rekindling a long forgotten romance? Find out in Puppet Love. Directed by Hatter Tinpenny, Puppet Love follows Bowie Gingham (Anne Flavie Testelin) and Tansy Felton (Dezharney Beignet) as they navigate the struggles of working, staying true to your passions, and finding love in a world that needs a bit of light. Oh, and they're puppets. That sing.
After murdering a man, an unlikely killer finds that his shadow moves freely and without his control, depicting his past and future actions, upon the walls.
The Greek shadow puppetry began 130 years ago. A student of Greek shadow puppetry travels to China, where shadow puppetry began over 2000 years ago. There he follows Chinese shadow puppeteer master He Shihong in Wushan of China. Watching his performances and listening to him talk about his art and his career in it, many parallels are drawn and he expresses them by including his Greek shadow puppetry teacher in the film. This documentary is a cultural bridge between Greece and China through the art of shadow puppetry.
