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Our Film Series showcases puppets on the big screen – celebrating the art of puppetry as captured by the camera. Featuring classic movies, hidden gems, and contemporary productions, our Film Series explores puppetry through narratives, documentaries, and short films. Don’t miss out as
we celebrate our 35th Anniversary Season with a screening of the The Muppet Movie Sing-Along, a holiday screening of the cult-classic, Gremlins, and a Members Only screening of The Muppet Musicians of Bremen.
Advance reservations are highly recommended.
To order tickets call 404-873-3391 or visit puppet.org.
(Tickets to Members Only films must be reserved by phone.)
FILM PRICING:
Member: FREE*
General Public: Starting at $7.00*
*Additional charge applies for Muppet Movie Sing-Along special event
INCLUDES:
• Film Screening
• Museum Admission
REMEMBER:
• Most films start at 7:00pm
• Museum Exhibits open at 6:00pm
• Cash bar available at 6:15pm
• All films are in Mainstage Theater
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Beauty is Embarrassing
Saturday, July 20, 2013
7pm*
In 1986 Wayne White became a designer for the hit television show “Pee Wee’s Playhouse” and his work was awarded with three Emmy’s. After traveling to Los Angeles with his wife, Mimi Pond, Wayne continued to work in television and designed sets and characters for shows such as “Shining Time Station,” “Beakman’s World,” “Riders In The Sky,” and “Bill & Willis.” He also worked in the music video industry winning Billboard and MTV Music Video Awards as an art director for seminal music videos including The Smashing Pumpkins’ “Tonight, Tonight” and Peter Gabriel’s “Big Time.”
*SPECIAL EVENT*
Please join us beginning at 5:30pm
to create your very own Wayne White Word Art!
Materials will be provided.
See examples of Wayne’s work to inspire your own: waynewhiteart.com
Directed by Neil Berkeley
Ages 16 & up
2012/92 min/Documentary
Puppetry Styles: Body, Hand-and-Rod, Hand, Rod, Shadow
"Beauty Is Embarrassing gives you the pleasantly disorienting sense of being introduced to someone you hadn't realized that you already knew" - SLANT MAGAZINE
"This movie ought to be required viewing, not just for Oscar voters but for every aspiring artist wondering how to build a life doing what they love" - LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE
Location: Mainstage Theater
Cost: $7; FREE for Center Members
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Don’t Eat the Pictures:
Sesame Street at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saturday, Aug 17, 2013
7pm
*MEMBERS-ONLY FILM*
As the Metropolitan Museum of Art closes, Big Bird decides to leave his Sesame Street friends behind in search of Snuffy. Once locked inside for the night, educational hilarity ensues as Big Bird and Snuffy team up to help a small Egyptian boy solve a riddle - as the rest of the cast searches for their big, yellow friend.
Directed by Jon Stone
Rated G
1983/60 min/Family/Fantasy
Puppetry Styles: Body, Hand-and-Rod, Rod
Location: Mainstage Theater
Cost: FREE for Center Members -- call to reserve tickets!
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The Muppet Movie Sing-Along
Saturday, Sept 21, 2013
4pm
Join us for a special interactive “sing-along” screening hosted by Heather Henson as part of the Center’s 35th Anniversary Weekend Celebration!
A lovingly made, touching story for kids of all ages, this film debut for The Muppets chronicles The Muppets’ rise to fame, beginning in a swamp and ending in Hollywood.
Directed by James Frawley
Rated G
1979/95 min/Adventure/Comedy/Family
Puppetry Styles: Body, Hand-and-Rod, Rod
Location: Mainstage Theater
Cost: Members $8, Non-Members $15
(Pricing includes commemorative Audience Interaction Prop Bag)
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Gremlins
Saturday, Dec 14, 2013
7pm
An unusual Christmas present called a "mogwai" is given to Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan) by his dad with three basic rules for caring for the pet: never get him wet, keep him out of bright light, and never feed him after midnight. When Billy inadvertently breaks one of the rules, the consequences multiply at an alarming rate that builds to an explosively suspenseful climax.
Directed by Joe Dante
Rated PG13
1984/111 min/Comedy/Horror
Puppetry Styles: Animatronic, Marionette, Rod
GREMLINS just may be the funniest scary movie you'll ever see! Outrageous, original, — a Mad Magazine version of E.T." - Jack Matthews, USA TODAY
"GREMLINS is not to be missed. Exhilarating, its wacky sense of comic horror, its all-American mix of malicious madcap mischief, is uniquely its own." - David Ansen, NEWSWEEK
Location: Mainstage Theater
Cost: $7; FREE for Center Members
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Kooky
Saturday, Feb 22, 2014
7pm
Combining puppetry and live action, this Czech film tells the story of a little boy whose mother throws away Kooky, his favorite stuffed animal. In the boy's fantasy, Kooky comes to life in a landfill and begins his journey amongst the rough-and-ready creatures of a mysterious forest. A thrilling family adventure and celebration of childhood imagination. An Eastern European Toy Story or Velveteen Rabbit.
Directed by Jan Svěrák
Ages 7 & up
2010/96 min/Action/Comedy/Family
Puppetry Styles: Finger, Found Object, Marionette, Rod, Stop Motion
“A witty and charming family film destined perhaps for international success.” - Ray Bennett, The Hollywood Reporter
Location: Mainstage Theater
Cost: $7; FREE for Center Members
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Old Mother Hubbard &
Other Film Shorts by Puppet Heap
Saturday, March 15, 2014
7pm
Spend an evening in a town not so far away, where the residents live out their lives much like everyone else. They wake up in the morning, read the paper, drink coffee, go to work, raise their children as best they can, come home and go to bed. They live, they love, they die. Oh, and they all happen to be puppets.
These are the puppet films of Puppet Heap. A collection of short, interrelated vignettes inspired by traditional rhymes and folklore, and featuring an eclectic mix of characters, moods and ideas. Through the lens, a theatrical space unfolds--a miniature universe wherein heaven and hell converge upon a living stage no larger than the span of your arms. Tactile, playful and spontaneous, the films of Puppet Heap are guaranteed to amuse and inspire.
Directed by Paul Andrejco
Curated by Jean Marie Keevins
Ages 4 & up
2011, 2012/60 min/Short Films
Puppetry Style: Glove
Location: Mainstage Theater
Cost: $7; FREE for Center Members
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The Muppet Musicians
of Bremen
Saturday, Apr 26, 2014
7pm
*MEMBERS-ONLY FILM*
Leroy the Donkey, T.T. the Rooster, Rover Joe the Hound Dog, and sassy Miss Casgut are determined to escape from their mean, rotten, masters… and their masters are equally determined to keep them down on the farm. Will the gallant, jazz-playing animals make it to freedom and fame? Only Kermit the Frog knows for sure… and you know what a great storyteller he is! A charming and music-filled modern fable.
Directed by Jim Henson
Rated G
1972/50 min/Comedy/Family/Music
Puppetry Styles: Body, Hand-and-Rod, Marionette, Rod
Location: Mainstage Theater
Cost: FREE for Center Members-- call to reserve tickets!
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SCAD Puppetmation
Saturday, May 10, 2014
7pm
Savannah College of Art and Design presents an evening of short animated films created by students from the Atlanta, Savannah, and Hong Kong campuses, adapting and reinventing puppetry for digital media. The films range from traditional stop motion using clay and objects to Maya and Flash computer constructions inspired by puppetry mechanics and aesthetics.
*Followed by talkback with SCAD Animation Faculty and Students
Curated by Jeremy Moorshead, Animation Department Chair,
and Becky Wible Searles
Ages 16 & up
Various/60 min/Short Films
Puppetry Styles: Animation, Stop Motion
Location: Mainstage Theater
Cost: $7; FREE for Center Members
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- Beauty is Embarrassing: Neil Berkeley
- Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: © Sesame Workshop
- The Muppet Movie Sing-Along: Courtesy of IBEX Puppetry
- Gremlins: © Warner Bros.
- Kooky: © Jan Svěrák
- Old Mother Hubbard & Other Short Films by Puppet Heap: © Puppet Heap
- The Muppet Musicians of Bremen: © Walt Disney Company
- SCAD Puppetmation: © Savannah College of Art and Design
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