Wayang Kulit and Wayang Golek

Wayang is the name given to the art of theatre in Indonesia from live to masked theatre to puppetry. Wayang Golek is the name given to the art of a certain kind of puppet theatre while the Wayang Kulit deals with a form of shadow puppetry. They are particularly popular art forms in Bali and Java.

Wayang Kulit
The puppets of these puppets are traditionally made from the hide and horn of buffalo, the buffalo horn used for the rods that manipulate the movements of the puppets body and arms which is what the hide is used for. It is a very old form of puppetry dating back to the 800's.

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Wayang Golek
Hand carved from wood and exquisitely decorated are the puppets of the Wayang Goleck. I actually got to see some of these at my old high school (la Chat). They were always on display along the hall to the theatre department which I now realise just how fitting that was. I do hope they are still there now.

Jatayus
 King of the vultures (dated c1970)

there's a fantastic gallery of images that briefly explains some of the traditional puppets and characters you can find here.

As well as a good guide on how they make the puppets here. At the beginning of the following video you can see a little of how the leather is carved:

Lotte Reiniger

Shadow Puppetry

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Released: September 2009
Advertiser: Unilever
Brand name: Surf Twilight Sensations
Agency: BBH London
Country: United Kingdom

Credits:

Agency: BBH, London
Creative Director: Marc Hatfield
Creative Team: Kimberley Gill, Mareka Carter
Illustrator: Kam Tang
Typography: Alison Carmichael
Agency Producer: Ruben Mercadal

Production Company: Sonny, London
Director: Guy Manwaring
DP: Bruno Delbonnel
Post-Production: Glassworks
Editor: Mark Edinoff
Sound: Factory Sound Studios
Music: Squeak E Clean, Los Angeles

The Queen's Throne

Rough concept for a throne room set. It also doubles as the room where the magic mirror is used when the curtain would be open.

final throne. Made from greyboard, cheep crushed velvet from a shirt that was on sale for a pound, and stuffing. Then painting over in white acrylic.

Cute Little Theatre Model

I was searching for fairytale related set designs on google and came across this lovely set:

It's funny because I was actually thinking of doing a few similar things with the forest and Dwarves house, although I was thinking of using real branches. This is meant to be for a 'Midsummer Night's Dream' set. Check out Mary's Merryland where there's more pictures and other crafts like puppets by her. I do hope she did save it and made it into a coffee table. What a great idea!

Dreams from the Woods

I was just browsing for music when I came across this unexpected gem:

Although the puppetry is relatively simple, it's still stunning (esp with the music). You can clearly see how the film was made and there is no attempt to hide the methods it used but in the end the beauty of this short is that it really doesn't have to.

'Dreams From the Woods' was made by Swedish artist Johannes Nyholm for and with the Swedish band 'Little Dragon'. It was used for the music video 'Twice'. You can check out his website here and his youtube channel here.