Puppetology

An inventive crop of puppet-infested shorts and music videos.

Puppets seem to be everywhere at the moment, not just in big movies but also shorts and music videos. One of the most popular films at last year’s Flatpack makes a return here, Johannes Nyholm’s The Tale of Little Puppetboy (pictured), along with his new one Dreams from the Woods. We also have cut-out childhood angst in Jons Mellgren’s Dark Island, a lo-fi parable from Portland’s Leslie Supnet and Oliver Husain’s bizarre performance piece Mount Shasta. Then Joel Trussell’s rotting zombie fruit head up a swarm of excellent promos for the likes of Kid 606, Ramona Falls and Herman Dune.