Tutelarius

Puppet Design & Fabrication by
Stevie Nemazee"

Premiered at the Vortex Dome L.A. and internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

An isolated being desperately latches onto an uncanny double in an attempt to imbue her life with meaning. This multimedia puppet performance fuses robotics with Bunraku while experimenting with silent film techniques, live instrumentation, and projection manipulation.

Inspired in part by the sexually violent dolls of Surrealist artist, Hans Bellmer,Tutelarius empathetically explores the darker secrets of the subconscious, bringing the ugliness and desperate beauty of human tendencies to the fore in a phantasmagorical landscape.

Directed by Brian Hashimoto & Stevie Nemazee
Video design by Narae Kim & Rodrigo Correia
Sound design by Chuck Gloria
Puppeteering by Shawn Brown, Alex Friedman, Stevie Nemazee & Tommy Slivinski

Photo Credit: Brian Hashimoto