Puppet (2010)

A broad look at the fraught history of American puppetry its marginalization as childrens theater and its sudden explosion as high art with an intimate thread following Dan Hurlin a downtown artist who is creating a complex puppet work about an eccentric Depressionera photographer Dan has just recovered from a scorching New York Times review which forced his last show out of theaters prematurely Now he faces a wider backlash against puppetry suggesting an eerie parallel between himself and his new puppetsubject a portrait photographer whose stunning body of work was very nearly lost forever