PARANOIMIA (2020)

Created for the Late Night Puppet Slam at Dragon Con, Paranoimia is a short puppetry film that uses The Art of Noise's song of the same title and was premiered with Dragon Con Goes Virtual 2020. Using Czech black puppetry methods, what is seen in the finished piece is Misha, who cannot fall asleep, and is helped to sleep by two creatures who seem antagonistic but want to help. The first approaches the situation rather chaotically, but the second helper comes in at the end and calmly helps Misha fall asleep.

The piece was originally meant to be performed live at the convention's annual puppet slam, but was quickly adapted to a filmed format for the virtual convention.