Manual Cinema is one of Chicago’s most acclaimed young theater companies with live works that combine handmade shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, and original sound and music to create immersive visual stories for both stage and screen. Using vintage overhead projectors, multiple screens, puppets, actors, live video feeds, Go-Pro cameras, multi-channel sound design, and a live music ensemble playing an original score, Manual Cinema transforms the experience of attending the cinema and imbues it with liveliness, ingenuity, and theatricality. Their newest…
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