Manual Cinema, an Emmy Award-winning performance collective, design studio, and film/ video production company founded in 2010 by UC alums Drew Dir, Sarah Fornace, Ben Kauffman, Julia Miller, and Kyle Vegter, combines handmade shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, and innovative sound and music to create immersive stories for stage and screen. Using vintage overhead projectors, multiple screens, puppets, actors, live feed cameras, multi-channel sound design, and a live music ensemble, Manual Cinema transforms the experience of attending the cinema and imbues it with liveness, ingenuity, and theatricality.
A Decade of Puppets in Organized Chaos - See the New York Times article here.