Are we all in agreement that a strong projected light and a blank wall makes us want to throw down a shadow puppet or two? Sometimes despite ourselves, even — and certainly with no expertise– we attempt the ‘dog with ears and moving mouth’ shadow, or, for those less nimble fingered, the ‘butterfly attached to thick wrists’. It’s super satisfying to make such an immediately controllable mark on a nice smooth surface.
In any case, Nova and Michael took this instrinct a step further with their Moon Theatre- allowing us shadow puppet amateurs to create elegiacal, complex, movable shadows on the moon (or at least the closest simulacrum a projector and a round bounce screen can supply).
In this video, Michael and Nova discuss their Moon Shadow Theatre, collaboration and the technology behind the shadow puppets at the Bing Innovation Lounge at TEDActive in Palm Springs.
