Word: bunraku
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...celebrated ones like Jeanne Moreau, Laurie Anderson and Miranda Richardson, to read the letter, act it out, set it to music or coolly dissect it. Many of them turn up on a video wall on which they perform and deform the text more than 30 ways, including as a Bunraku puppet show, an aria, a rap song and a clown routine. On another screen a white cockatoo grabs a paper copy in one claw and eats it. Calle does everything but attach the letter to the back of a chariot and drag it three times around the Colosseum...
...video’s concept is adapted from the ancient Japanese art of bunraku puppetry. A team of “puppeteers,” led by comedian David Cross, manipulates the (seemingly) catatonic band members’ limbs, guiding them through a fake performance in a comically undersized garage...
...concept, “The Long Christmas Ride Home.” “I saw the puppet body literally come to life,” Vogel said. To write the play, Vogel immersed herself in an unlikely combination of Christmas music and the ancient Japanese puppet theater, Bunraku. “I must have looked interesting with Christmas, Japanese, and ’60s music blaring from my car in the middle of summer,” she said.2003’s “The Long Christmas Ride Home” tells the story...
...Dolls (2002): In a departure, Kitano presents three tales of undying love inspired by Bunraku, traditional Japanese puppet theater. A strange lack of guns, but there's emotional violence aplenty
...stage in front of it. Benshi, or film narrators, had followings of their own; a big-name benshi could pack a house. Throughout the silent era, they mimicked the voices of different characters and provided plot narration to musical accompaniment, in a style familiar from Japan's Bunraku and Noh theaters...