File puptcrit/puptcrit.0601, message 233


From: eileen blumenthal <hrotsvitha-AT-earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:49:02 -0500
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] another note on TV and lip sync


Right on, mjm.
Eileen

(Eileen Blumenthal)


On Jan 16, 2006, at 3:31 PM, mjm wrote:

> As I grew up as a kid in Wisconsin I was very much a fan of Warner
> Brothers Looney Tunes. Today I still prefer highly stylized animation
> over attempts at realistic/naturalistic animation. My first  
> memories of
> puppets were the sock puppets my mother made for us. On TV it was, of
> course, "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" and Howdy Doody.
>
> My tastes have remain the same despite years, experience and training.
> When I initially studied theatre in college it was in a very
> naturalistic/Stanislavski influenced department. So when given a  
> chance
> to study highly stylized and presentational Kabuki & Noh, it opened my
> eyes to other traditions (Commedia del Arte, circus arts, mime &
> pantomime, musicals, Bunraku, etc.). I still prefer everything to  
> be as
> non reality/naturalistic as possible. Engaging and employing the
> audience's imagination to use it's abilities to give the form &  
> subject
> matter of the art some highly subjective meaning/content is what it is
> all about for me.
>
> I can understand how lip syncing becomes important in the early  
> days of
> TV, which even today is still dominated by talking heads. But, and  
> this
> is just my highly subjective opinion, the more realistic/naturalistic
> puppetry or animation or theatre tries to become, the less  
> interesting,
> engaging and artistic it is for me.
>
> Also, I would never want to be in the position to have to "certify"  
> the
> professionalism or quality of another artist. Life is too short and  
> art
> is too long and wide and deep for such things.
>
>   Hippocrates may have been meaning the medical arts,
> but I think this quote applies to much more:
>
> =93Life is short,
> But the art is long,
> Opportunity fleeting,
> The experiment perilous."
>
> mjm
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