Movies: Puppetry

This unaired pilot, produced by Jim Henson and Jerry Juhl, was shot in Atlanta in the summer of 1962. The pilot featured Kermit the Frog, Taminella Grinderfall and King Goshposh, characters who would all reappear a few years later in the Tales From M...

Puppeteer Chen Hsi-huang establishes his own troupe and moves out from under the shadow of his father, the legendary Li Tien-lu....

The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls....

A boy's dog has run off and, with the help of unfortunately named marionette Handy, the kid learns to use a telephone to find him....

Johnny Diamonds stars in this musical adventure set in ancient mythological greece. Johnny Orpheus returns home to the peaceful village of Salamis to find that it has come upon troubled times. Assembling a crew of heroes like no other, Johnny sets s...

The crusades come to life in Egyptian artist Wael Shawky’s beautiful Cabaret Crusades. Inspired by the writings of Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf, Shawky’s film trilogy explores the horrors of the medieval holy wars in the Middle-East – from an Arab pe...

A quiet bus ride home from the city library turns into an aural nightmare for a book-reading commuter. With every stop the bus fills with people and sounds, becoming a chaotic cacophony joyful to everyone but her. Only when the bus finally reaches he...

An old timbal performer in a puppet theater has a secret past....

A documentary about an old animation technique and the film studio that tries to carry on the legacy. The worlds oldest animation studio still making film with stop motion technique is Nukufilm located in Tallinn, Estland. Here we can follow the work...

An unsold TV pilot based on the classic comic strip, shot by Jim Henson with puppets built by Don Sahlin....

Organza, a broke artist living in deep space, must travel across the galaxy to seek revenge on her ex in order to cure her mysterious illness. As she meets strange creatures such as museum curators and cyborg pop stars, she learns that perhaps vulner...

A road safety lesson using puppets and animation kindergarten age children....

Go behind the scenes to witness the magic of the Muppets in this compilation of rare footage of the variety of puppetry created by Jim Henson. Through a combination of documentary clips, interviews, and rare behind the scenes footage, this program of...

Set in Flossmore Valley and Egypt, Timmy, Brushbrush and Bubbles visit the pyramids on their official pyramid investigation business as they explore the pyramid of King Tooth Uncommon....

An alien duo arrive on earth and begin to enslave humans, using a local Public Access Children's show as a front. Things get out of hand when a human is forcibly turned into one of them and joins a resistance to overthrow the aliens....

In the late afternoon sun the greedy landlord accosts the industrious farmer, demanding he pays the rent....

Jim Henson and Rowlf the Dog explain the art and history of puppetry, and let the viewer in on some of the secrets in performing his own act, the Muppets....

Tale of an otherworldly creature preparing a celebration in a cemetery, utilizing puppetry, stop motion, and silhouette animation....

A lonely creature learns patience when it comes to making a friend....

Siblings Thiago and Ísis,explore three Brazilian biomas: Cerrado, Pantanal and Mata Atlântica together with their father, filmmaker João. They help an animal in danger in each scenario and discover their importance and their mysteries. The film prese...