Projects
Firefly Shadow Theater uses shadow puppets to cast a light on topics of interest in an original, dynamic and engaging way.
“Letting Go” - Mary Amato’s short film exploring emotional and physical attachments and what we lose and gain through release.
“Writing Devices” - We created this series of humorous and educational mini videos in collaboration with writer Christoph Drösser. In each video we use shadow puppet animations to illustrate and explain a different writing device, from anaphora to zeugma. These are for writers, teachers, students, speechwriters, and all those who enjoy learning about the range of rhetorical devices, sometimes little known, for adding zest to writing.
To view the full series click here.
“The Chair” - A Firefly Shadow Theater production of a story from the audiobook collection, Traveling Tales, in collaboration with composer Amy K Bormet and voice artist Kate Reading. In the children’s picture-book industry, publishers have moved away from the long-form narratives with rich, complex language that were meant to be read by adults to young children toward short texts driven by images that children can experience independently. Both types of work contribute to a child’s world. As admirers of long-form narrative, we set out to create some—in video and audio form.
“Snippet” - Trailer After reading an article,'The Secret Life of Scissors’, by curator Teresa Collenette about an exhibit at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London, we became fascinated with the role of this simple domestic tool in women's lives and decided to explore it in a new full-length shadow puppet production. The images in this trailer are highlights from various scenes.
Andrea Caspari's design of the book cover for "Thinking Through Resistance: A Study of Public Oppositions to Contemporary Global Health Practice", Nicola Bulled ed., Routledge, NY 2017.
"Imagining Urban Resilience", a 2015 power point presentation using shadow puppet images, for ISET (The Institute for Social and Environmental Transition), as part of the Rockefeller Foundation's pioneering work on resilient cities in the face of climate change.
