Director James Ashcroft and puppeteer Paul Lewis take IndieWire inside the demented delivery room for a new film distributed ...

Anurupa Roy’s love for puppetry began at six when her parents gifted her a puppet. “I was performing all the time, fascinated ...

Instead of human remains, however ... Unlike some modern dolls, these ancient puppets can’t talk—but they have a lot to say.

The title character in The Rule of Jenny Pen is terrifying, but not human. Instead, Jenny Pen is a doll/hand puppet wielded ...

A collection of 2,400-year-old ceramic puppets found atop a Salvadorian pyramid ... Bolinas figurines refer to various human-modeled statues created throughout the Middle and Late Preclassic ...

Three of the figurines have articulated heads, causing them to resemble modern toy dolls. The authors suggest they were a kind of ancient puppet, positioned into a scene, or "tableau," undoubtedly ...

These giant puppets, animated by the dancers who wear ... they are sometimes known by names that are variations of giant or doll. An offshoot of Spanish traditions — the word mojiganga derives ...

Antiquity (2025)) Since there were no human remains found at the site, scientists suspect the dolls were most likely used for public rituals. While from eye-level the puppets may appear angry ...

Szymański and colleague Gabriela Prejs discovered the five puppets as part of what resembled a funeral deposit—although it contained no human remains—at the top of the largest pyramidal ...