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Manual Cinema: Artist Talk and Social
Thu, Apr 03
|The Carriage House
An evening with members of the Chicago-based collective Manual Cinema
Time & Location
Apr 03, 2025, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
The Carriage House, 225 E 67th St, New York, NY 10065, USA
About the event
Help us welcome Manual Cinema to New York City where they are performing "The Magic City" at The New Victory Theater March 29th - April 6th. Join us for a peek into their process, learn more about the company, and stick around for some refreshments!
Manual Cinema is an Emmy Award-winning performance collective, design studio, and film/video production company founded in 2010 by Drew Dir, Sarah Fornace, Ben Kauffman, Julia Miller, and Kyle Vegter. Manual Cinema 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. The company was awarded an Emmy in 2017 for “The Forger,” a video created for The New York Times…