Puppet

Animation

Director: Patrick Smith

RT: 6:20mins

Saturday September 29 10:00AM

Website: www.blendfilms.com/puppet.html

Synopsis:

A young man fabricates a simple sock puppet, not knowing the abuse the entity will soon inflict. Through an escalating series of torture, the possessed puppet  takes on the embodiment of fear, chaos, and willful self-destruction.
    

Filmmaker Bio:

Patrick Smith has written, produced, animated and directed five award winning films from 2000-2006. His bizarre, morphing style and symbolic stories of identity have extended beyond film. His Public Art Installations, paintings, and mulit-media projects, have earned the artist a multitude of accolades outside the world of animation. Smith is also a Professor and Senior Thesis advisor at the Pratt Institute in New York, a fellow with the New York Foundation of the Arts, and a curator for several international film and animation festivals. His studio is located in Tribeca, New York City.