Animating Principles was a puppet show devised by Beth Sometimes & Charlie Freedman in recognition of Watch This Space’ Artist Run Space’s thirtieth year. A boardroom melodrama, it tracks infestations of the bureaucratic within the tenuous infrastructure of the poetic. With reverence for thirty years of collective organising at Watch This Space, we witness a meeting of wonky proportions. Animating Principles: The Movie is launching in 2025 in Naarm and Mparntwe.
Puppet and prop makers:
Leonie Brialey, Dan Murphy, Sia Cox & Beth Sometimes
Script-writers: Gabriel Curtin, Charlie Freedman & Beth Sometimes
Puppeteers: Harry Hayes, Betty Sweetlove, Tam Hanson, Russell Goldflam, Seraphina Newberry & Jorgen Doyle
“Tuckers”: Jessie Hall, Emma Collard, Saar Amptmeijer, Jacqui Ward & Leonie Brialey
Sound design by Vito Lucarelli
Lighting by Meret MacDonald
Filmed by Jonothan Daw
Video edited by Charlie Freedman and Garden Reflexxx
Photographed by Martina Capurso & Sara Maiorino
Special thanks to: Dallas Gold, Fiona Walsh, Martina Capurso, Selma, Frazer McKinley, Alex Hullah, Hannah Ekin, Carmen Juarez, Emma Hart, Jesse Loughan & Zoe Scoglio