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SUMMARY:Live performance: Zach Dorn's Real Live Puppets
DESCRIPTION:Performances that transform two-dimensional images into expanded experiences through DIY live-feed camera projection\, in-person editing\, and shadow puppetry. A conversation with the artist follows the event. \nProgram: \nLong Live Livia: This 20 minute performance merges stop-motion animation and DIY electronics into a live event where Dorn narrates and edits his film\, Long Live Livia\, in real time. Through the manipulation of joysticks\, toggles\, and knobs on a hand-built video mixer\, Dorn invites audiences to witness his attempt to piece together TV media\, found footage\, and original animated sequences to navigate grief and pop culture’s hold on personal memory. \nAn Excruciatingly Ordinary Toy Theater Show: Dorn will present excerpts from his surreal\, darkly funny\, and fast-paced live-action comic book\, An Excruciatingly Ordinary Toy Theater Show\, where he manipulates digital cameras through paper dioramas to unearth miniature landscapes and two-dimensional puppets. \nDorn is a filmmaker and performing artist who creates miniature melodramas that explore the underbelly of childhood nostalgia through the disappointed eyeballs of adulthood. With puppets\, paper dioramas\, and a grotesque DIY craftsmanship\, Dorn builds interweaving narratives tangled in homesickness and pop culture. \nDuring the early 2000s\, Dorn founded the puppet troupe Miniature Curiosa in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, staging performances inside repurposed photo booths\, bowling alleys\, and abandoned schoolhouses. His multimedia puppet performances also premiered at Ars Nova (New York)\, St. Ann’s Warehouse (New York)\, and REDCAT (Los Angeles). \nIn 2016\, theatre and film director Julie Taymor sent Dorn to Japan to explore the role of automata in Shinto ritual. During his research\, he shifted course and apprenticed with psychoanalyst and experimental theatre director Kuro Tanino\, before ultimately joining the Fusuma Karakuri Preservation Society\, an organization dedicated to documenting the remaining fusuma karakuri performances across Shikoku. \nHis first stop-motion film\, Charlotte\, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2021. His films\, Moomin and Wild Heart 1981/2020\, have screened and received awards from True/False\, Slamdance\, and Aspen Shorts. His recent film\, Long Live Livia\, had its North American premiere at AFI in October and received the prestigious High-Risk Award from Switzerland’s Fantoche International Film Festival in September\, 2025. Long Live Livia is currently touring as part of Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation.
URL:https://www.coa.edu/event/live-performance-zach-dorns-real-live-puppets/
LOCATION:Thomas S. Gates\, Jr. Community Center\, 105 Eden Street\, Bar Harbor\, ME\, 04609\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cora Carvalho e Silva":MAILTO:ccarvalhoesilva@coa.edu
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