Working in the Theatre: Manual Cinema

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MANUAL CINEMA is a Chicago-based performance collective, design studio, and film/ video production company that combines handmade shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, and innovative sound and music to create immersive stories for stage and screen. Using vintage overhead projectors, multiple screens, puppets, actors, live feed cameras, multi-channel sound design, and a live music ensemble, Manual Cinema transforms the experience of attending the cinema and imbues it with liveness, ingenuity, and theatricality.
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For more information on Manual Cinema, please visit www.manualcinema.com.
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[@NathanAli]

In my lifetime... I hope and pray that I get to see this show live. I am blown away by this discipline and passion and magical creativity. Fantastic!!!

[@thekidcreative3823]

I love this. Such incredible thoughtful artwork, I look forward in showing my students this.

[@florgutierrez6454]

Just saw ADA AVA at the Paramount in Boston and loved it!

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This is so inspiring! Amazing work

[@orztirr1417]

Fascinating medium they have created. Would love to learn more about it.

[@bm4114]

Jaw dropping. Stunning.

[@helenaforsberg4119]

This is really great! I just bought two projectors:)

[@danipubvideo]

amazing,,,,

[@globleworld2012]

Now this play is LIVE on KACWC Dehran by ADA AVA. Tomorrow will be last programme.

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Uau

[@YungMollyTV]

Where can I watch this live ?