A ShadowLight Production created in the spring of 2024. "Chagall in His Own Words: An Invocation" is an avant-garde shadow theater production inspired by the early life of painter Marc Chagall. Drawing from Chagall's autobiography "Mein Leben," the production uses Chinese-style puppets to animate his words and artwork. Directed by Larry Reed, with Art Direction by Naomie Kremer, the ShadowLight Productions team vividly portrays the artist's childhood in a shtetl and his creative inspirations. In a nod to traditional animation, the crew employed various physical planar layers to manipulate shadows and puppets, which were ultimately flattened by the output of a video camera. Credits: Words by Marc Chagall English Narration by Peter Coyote Art Director - Naomie Kremer Music & Foley - Beth Custer Shadow Master - I Made Moja Shadow Casters/Puppet Fabricators Fred C. Riley III Wendy Morton Jessica Nguyen Daniel McGuire Stephen Clifford Caryl Kientz Jacquelyn Serrano Larry Reed Cinematographer - Jacquelyn Serrano Producer - Caryl Kientz Director - Larry Reed Film Editors Larry Reed & Jacquelyn Serrano Re-Recording Mixer Ben Hicks Disher Sound
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