Behind the Shadows
A cultural bridge between China & Greece threw the shadow puppetry art
2025-04-23 | 14 minutes
Plot Summary
The Greek shadow puppetry began 130 years ago. A student of Greek shadow puppetry travels to China, where shadow puppetry began over 2000 years ago. There he follows Chinese shadow puppeteer master He Shihong in Wushan of China. Watching his performances and listening to him talk about his art and his career in it, many parallels are drawn and he expresses them by including his Greek shadow puppetry teacher in the film. This documentary is a cultural bridge between Greece and China through the art of shadow puppetry.
Cast
Recommendations
-
The Family Friend
-
Alien: Romulus
-
Juror #2
-
Just the Two of Us
-
Here
-
Late Spring
-
The Zone of Interest
-
Sons
-
Fando and Lis
-
Rocco and His Brothers
-
2073
-
Past Lives
-
Death in Venice
-
Borgo
-
Blood Simple
-
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
-
Dirty Dancing
-
A Little Something Extra
-
Kill the Jockey
-
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Similar Movies
-
Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971
-
Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988
-
Ainu Neno An Ainu
-
Nejstarší umění
-
Aleš I.
-
Aleš II.
-
Pablo Picasso et Françoise Gilot : la femme qui dit non
-
China Jam
-
Meat Joy
-
The Hunters
-
Max Gimblett: Original Mind
-
Exergo
-
Mrs. Fang
-
Spomíname na Edmunda Gwerka
-
Taiwan: A Digital Democracy in China's Shadow
-
Grandpa Called It Art
-
I'm in Love with Pippa Bacca
-
The Beksińskis. A Sound and Picture Album
-
Maľby na skle
-
Dogs of Democracy