The Puppeteer

The Puppeteer is a film that explores our character Evie’s state of phantasmagoria when she experiences an episode surrounding puppets and their mimicry of her life. The main aim I wanted to achieve was to move away from the usual student film style and look into different art forms that can add meaning and enhance our narrative such as the art of puppetry. I wanted the audience to feel uneasy and to see this classic childhood iconography as creepy and abominable, as well as being an experimental and creative way to add much-needed context that describes our character's relationship whilst still remaining linear. I also included small details that the audience may pick up on which could change the ways in which you read our film, this allows a sense of control over the film, almost as if you are puppeteering the puppets, and becoming the puppeteer yourself. Alternatively, the partner is the puppeteer and controlling Evie, or even Evie is the puppeteer in her horrifying hallucinations which address some quite sensitive topics in a weirdly colourful and contrapuntal way.