Let’s Hope He’ll Be Back

Using only a basket of sewing scraps, Javier Aranda’s two hands become puppets who give us stories without words: deeply human, tender, and funny.

Freedom or Death

This six minute video by Philippe Genty offers the ultimate version of one of puppetry’s deepest tropes: the puppet as existential prisoner of his strings.

Cie Gare Centrale

Agnes Limbos And The Power of Objects

In Limbos’ crazy world, objects come and go in an arbitrary fashion; in “real” life they appear to offer security, but here they take over.

Les Sages Fous

UA shabby performer in black or grey opens battered barrels and suitcases; eerie, bunraku-style puppets emerge from these unlikely habitats to reveal their strange beauty.

Objects and Banksy: Sirens of the Lambs

Banksy has taken a series of familiar objects—the cuddly animal toys familiar to us as children—and he’s placed them in a radically new context, with shocking results.

Erik Sanko

I love this piece. It’s disquieting in all the right ways. It plays with different levels of reality—or more accurately, unreality.