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| Classics in Miniature |
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Contact: Steven Ritz-Barr
Phone: 310-428-3464
Email: lapuppet@gmail.com
20170 Observation Dr. • Topanga, CA 90290
Website: classicsinminiature.com
Classics in Miniature, a puppet film series by Steven Ritz-Barr. These films are available for purchase from our website, but we offer live programs involving a film's screening and a lecture/demo. The talks can be around either the making of the film or the literary content, for example "Faust Goethe and Puppets-- what they have in common." These programs are geared toward adults usually within a University setting, although they can be presented to any group.
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Faust |
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Duration: |
25
minute film screening with 30 to 90 minute content
lecture with puppets |
| Audience: |
Adults
and others over 12 |
| Audience
Size: |
250
or more |
| Puppet
Style: |
Marionnettes |
| Language: |
Wordless |
| Stage
Size: |
Any
size, as long as the screen is large enough. |
| Personel: |
1 |
| Description: |
As
a wordless marionette film, a Faust interpretation
based on Goethe's part one explores an old man's
obsession with power. He makes a deal with the devil's
servant, Mephisto, in order to obtain more power,
more glory, and more ability to seduce a young maiden.
What follows is Gretchen's demise as well as Faust's
ticket to Hell...but wait, he does show his love
for her goes beyond his love for himself and a redemption
ensues. |
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QUIXOTE with Michael York
as the voice of Don Quixote |
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Duration: |
30 minute film with 30 to 90 min lecture/demo on the film's creation and literary adaptation |
| Audience: |
Adults and others over 12 |
| Audience
Size: |
250 or more |
| Puppet
Style: |
Marionnettes |
| Language: |
Wordless |
| Stage
Size: |
Any size, as long as the screen is large enough. |
| Personel: |
1 |
| Description: |
In
a second worldess marionette film, Michael York voices
the character of Cervantes' Don Quixote, who rides
again across southern Spain looking for "this
thing they call adventure". This humorous yet
adult film centers around Quixote's obsession with
Chivalry. He becomes a noble Knight to himself but
for others he just becomes a clown who is sadly out
of place in the realistic world around him. He charges
windmills thinking they are Giants, attacks sheep
thinking they are an army, and attacks puppets thinking
they are real people. In the end, he recognizes his
folly and returns home. |
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