Exhibition of designs, objects, puppets, wardrobes and posters of Eva Farkašová.
This exhibition aims to present the diversity and breadth of talent creation of Eve Farkašová, which is well known in Poland (mainly designer of theatrical costumes). Her designs, objects, puppets, costumes and posters are on the one hand, playful, easy, simple, but on the other hand, there are efforts to metaforickosť, symbolism, statement of basic living and philosophical issues.
Maybe you are interested on what you are going to find inside the Boxes. Well, you are going to find works of Shakespeare condense in … 8 minutes! The spectator behind the box-theatre is going to receive instructions through the earpieces and is going to move the objects without knowing why he/she does what he/she is doing. The spectators who are in front watching the show are enjoying a work of Shakespeare through the earpieces. The story becomes real thanks to the movements of the “actor”. Inspired on our show “Capses”, Micro-Shakespeare is a request of National Theatre of Great Britain. We are the first Catalan company who produces a show jointly with them.
Dagmara Antic lives in the Balkans, where for several years she has been creating artistic Kazik de Bubu puppets. Each of the puppets has it's own smell, name and personality. The puppets are not seldom created from recycled materials and are usually sewn manually. Most of them have acrylic or porcelain teeth and each one of them is exclusive and unique.
Kaziu de Bubu are being formed in a domestic shelter, they are full of emotions, positive energy and love because their authoress listens to the desires and expectations of people who order them. So far Kazis were shown to a wider audience at exhibitions in Poland, Serbia and Canada.
Opening ceremony of the X International Festival of Puppet Theatre and Animated Films for Adults "Puppet is a Human too".
We cordially invite you to the official opening ceremony X International Festival of Puppet Theatre and Animated Films for Adults "Puppet is a Human too", during which we will introduce people, who were invited as a jury members this year, as well as those that make it all possible, thanks to their finance help and support. Also we acquaint our viewers with the granting of the Audience Award
The performance was inspired by the famous Greek tragedy Antigone, the story putting at the heart of its interest the main heroine’s clash with the authority. The sisters respond differently to their brother’s death and the King’s injunction of his burial.
The choreographer Nicole Beutler and the director Ulrike Quade fuse puppets of the bunraku visual performance, exposing a pending question:
Do you really have free will?
Maybe you are interested on what you are going to find inside the Boxes. Well, you are going to find works of Shakespeare condense in … 8 minutes! The spectator behind the box-theatre is going to receive instructions through the earpieces and is going to move the objects without knowing why he/she does what he/she is doing. The spectators who are in front watching the show are enjoying a work of Shakespeare through the earpieces. The story becomes real thanks to the movements of the “actor”. Inspired on our show “Capses”, Micro-Shakespeare is a request of National Theatre of Great Britain. We are the first Catalan company who produces a show jointly with them.
Gobo. Digital Glossary, offers an exploration of humanity's powerlessness in the face of the chaos of existence. At the centre of the performance is the elusive notion of Gobo, a concept definable only by its absence.
Ironic references to heroism and the hero suggest that Gobo might be some kind of ordering principle, perhaps based on antique notions of virtue. A self-deluding dream that a Beckett character might cling to.
In a town getting ready for the upcoming wedding of Pulcinella and Teresina, everyone is invited. The specialties of the wedding feast are the typical products of the lands of southern Italy and the inevitable fresh eggs. Rusaru and Ciccillo two farmers are members and friends for life, the first in Calabria, the second Neapolitan, who invited to the wedding of the Pulcinella act as witnesses.
But something does not go the right way: it’s a bit of time that the land of their fields is smelly, the plants that are grown die and their chickens are sick enough to not make more eggs. Then you will find that someone is spreading toxic waste in the country of the two farmers polluting the land and waterways. They will be the ones, Pulcinella and Zampalesta, to discover and bring to light one of the most disturbing phenomena of our contemporary history.
A puppet has its own unmistakable language – this is one of the reasons why theatre in Iran is increasingly resorting to an old tradition: puppet theatre. In a repressive society a puppet can say and do more on a stage than a person, for ot is just a thing. This is why theatre-makers in Iran have decided to use the power of “things” to stir up resistance. The director Zahra Sabri risks a lot when she moves traditional puppeteering over into the realms of contemporary object there and distils pacifist philosophy from Persian poetry. “Count to One” is a quiet play in oriental style. And a daring anti-war statement.
It's the tenth time when this extraordinary festival takes the audience to the fanstastic and poetic land of indefinite imagination. We are going to mention the most interesting spectacles and watch an archival footage and photographs in a cozy ambience of our artistic cafe with one of the founders and organizers of the Festival.
"Niyar – a paper tale" is a Puppet Theatre show made all out of paper. In it, crumpled pieces of "Niyar" – paper in Hebrew – are brought to life. The artist figure, constantly present on stage, embarks on a journey of creation, forming a poetic alternate reality. This world within a world is created by Maayan Iungman - Without using a single word.
A frustrated artist is sitting in a mountain of crumpled paper. With each idea that is being thrown aside, the pile gets bigger. But out of the agony that is, at times, the unknown territory of Creation, life emerges. A small paper figure appears. Other pieces of paper on and around the desk become defined objects – flowers, clouds, trees. They are breathing, moving and playing, while the paper figure makes its first steps and experiences friendship and lost. The artist is no longer in control of the creation. A new journey begins.
What is the condition of men in the contemporary world? Why does speech impediment cause problems? What is the difference between a woman and a man? Do dolls make good wife material? How do you hit on a girl? Why shouldn’t people drink alcohol?
The “Kazio Sponge Show” is a performance somewhere between a cabaret and a musical, which touches upon topics that are striking for the common man from the 21st century. It is a one man, or rather a one-puppet show, where the second, the third or the fourth wall does not exist. It is also a journey of a small boy towards dreams and unfulfillment.
“Dead and living figures” - There’s an idea that gives a proof that if we think over human behavior everything we know about it — it will seem to us just a game.
The performance “Dead and living figures” is dedicated to my great-grandfather Oskar Apfelbaum (who was born in Austro-Hungarian Empire) and his unfinished play-memories which are so similar with my life.
The screenings of animated films will be accompanied by an interactive installation by Grzegorz Rogala. Entering the area of camera operation the audience will turn into marionettes. Will they control their movements? Or maybe they will be controlled by some external force, as it happens with puppets? It will be possible to interact with other people. It will be possible to change colours. It will be possible to feature on the screen in a multiple presence. The artist offers us an unusual experience which can be just fun, at the same time an opportunityto meditate on our functioning in this world.
Screening of films selected for the International Animated Film Competition for Young Artists.
Animator is the most renowned international animated film festival, taking place in Poznan since 2007. Apart from competition screenings there are presented retrospectives, thematic screenings, screenings with live music, talks, workshops and concerts.
A traditional Spanish story about womanizer Don Juan dates back to 14th C. Later it was often adapted for theatre. The play used to be an integral part of the core repertoire of every puppetry dynasty. In Slovakia traditional puppeteers performed the play under the name „Don Šajn or Prodigal Son“. Don Šajn (aka Don Juan) loses all his fortune in the game of dice therefore he decides to marry Doňa Karolínka, a daughter of rich Don Avenéz. Don Šajn asks his father to give him money to organise the wedding. When his father refuses to give him money, enraged Don Šajn kills his father and sister. Doňa Karolínka is in love with Don Filip, a brother of Don Šajn, and she refuses to marry Don Šajn. Don Šajn decides to revenge and in a fight he kills Don Avenéz. When fleeing the justice he also kills a hermit living in a forest. The ghost of Don Avenéz finds him there and invites him for dinner. Don Šajn gets scared and asks to be protected by guards so that nobody can get close to him. He, however, does not escape the punishment and at the end devils and the Death escort him to hell.
The performance is based on the tale of the same name by the great Ural narrator Bazhov. The tale is supposed to have told by two pilgrims who descended from the Ural mountains on skis… It is a touching story of old Kokovanya and of how miracles can happen in our life whenever we believe in them.
Solo documentary, puppet and storytelling performance for 8 spectators. Stories and situations from family life of Palestinian man born and raised in refugee camp performed and directed according to his own history.
Solo documentary, puppet and storytelling performance for 8 spectators. Stories and situations from family life of Palestinian man born and raised in refugee camp performed and directed according to his own history.
Over there and back. Story about puppeteers' polish-czechoslovak and polish-czech-slovak contacts in Silesia.
The book relates the unprecedented presence of Czech and Slovak artists in the Polish puppet theatre of the 20th and 21st centuries. Basic questions revolve around issues of penetration of influences and inspirations between Czech, Slovak and Polish puppet theatres, as well as the question whether or not and to what extent such a significant presence of Czech and Slovak artists in the Polish puppet theatre is conditioned by the weakening condition of the Polish theatre, the opening of the borders, a community cultural references to the united Europe, or maybe it is a result of constant fluctuations resulting from geographical and historical proximity of our nations.
Meeting with Dr. Ewa Tomaszewska, due to the high interest, is moved to the Theatre Institute.
Itamar Daube, who is a head of the illustration and animation program in the Department of Visual Communication at Shenkar College of Art, Design and Engineering (Israel), an illustrator and animator will display how illustrating digitally on a computer, resembles sculpting more than drawing.
Those who are interested in participating in the master class are asked to send an e-mail application to film.festival@lalkatezczlowiek.eu till October 15, 2015.
Screening of films selected for the International Animated Film Competition for Young Artists.
Solo documentary, puppet and storytelling performance for 8 spectators. Stories and situations from family life of Palestinian man born and raised in refugee camp performed and directed according to his own history.
William Kentridge (b. 1955) is South Africa's most important contemporary artist, best known for his animated films, prints, drawings, installations, scenography and performances. The artist has been compared to Buster Keaton and Gerorge Mélies. He mentions Hogarth, Francis Bacon, Manet, Philip Guston, Picasso, the Dadaists, Samuel Beckett and Mayakovski as his inspirations. He has been uniquely faithful to 35 mm film.
Three views, three puppets in love, one actress, one musician, one performance.
The garden, bed in the garden, in the bed He, She and She.
Pre-wedding desires, wedding nights, after-wedding days.
She loves him, he loves the other one and the other one loves someone completely different.
Puppet theatre performance for the adults using various artistic approaches. The performance is built as a puppet show of one actress and one musician, who present three different points of the views on the play’s events told by three main characters – don Perlimplin, his young wife Belisa and his housemaid Marcolfa.
Solo documentary, puppet and storytelling performance for 8 spectators. Stories and situations from family life of Palestinian man born and raised in refugee camp performed and directed according to his own history.
Solo documentary, puppet and storytelling performance for 8 spectators. Stories and situations from family life of Palestinian man born and raised in refugee camp performed and directed according to his own history.
Screening of films selected for the International Animated Film Competition for Young Artists.
In her program "Toons and Tunes", animation historian, critic and journalist Nancy Phelps takes you time travelling through the history of animation, focusing on the relationship between animation and music. On this voyage, she conducts a lively discussion on the stylistic visions of the directors and composers, telling many enlightening stories on interesting topics, filling you in on fascinating titbits about the films and their production.
Solo documentary, puppet and storytelling performance for 8 spectators. Stories and situations from family life of Palestinian man born and raised in refugee camp performed and directed according to his own history.
An office located in the Californian desert. The self-imposed objective is no less far out: narrative landscaping. Its abbreviation is “O.N. L.S.D”, which includes what is pretty obvious, being on LSD.
An ascetic room, emptiness of which is filled with the memories, dreams and scattered experiences of the protagonist. Shreds of the past years, flashbacks from the childhood, phantoms, smells and delusions… All sealed in blurred paintings – written, drawn, scribbled by life. A life suspended in time and space. A life frozen between yesterday and today, between the real and a daydream, between the light and the shadow…
This is how the unique world of Bruno Schulz – a Polish writer, graphic artist and painter – is perceived by the makers of “The Cinnamon shops” spectacle.
Official closure of the Kaziu de Bubu puppets exhibition and a meeting with authoress, Dagmara Antic.
Concerning the materials used, the most important is the place here the performance takes place, which is called "retábulo". It is built in wood and flowery tissue and replaces the traditional stage. It's a kind of miniature with a stage courtain, a stage set painted on cardboard and it has got its own lighting (an oil candle).
The puppets are made of wood and cork, from 20 to 40 cm height, and are dressed in such a way that the characters can immediately be identified just as in a naturalist theatre.
Toporland – suite without words for Cardboard and Contrabass, inspired by the work of Roland Topor and Johann Sebastian Bach.
Animated by actors, like a film-band – rolling with the rhythms harmonized with contrabass, showing series of surprising scenes, hemmed of Roland Topor black humor.
Announcement of the international verdicts of the Jury of the X International Festival of Puppet Theatre and Animated Films for Adults "Puppet is a Human too" and the International Animated Film Competition for Young Artists combined with awarding additional prizes.
After the ceremony, the awarded animated films will be presented.
