Suddenly
Based on Etgar Keret's book of short stories "Suddenly, a Knock at the Door"
Amid the sun-glinted spires of a forsaken Gotham, a storyteller gets the ultimate assignment. In this gritty puppet cinema epic adapted from Tel Aviv-based writer Etgar Keret’s darkly funny short story collection Suddenly, A Knock on the Door, Israeli director Zvi Sahar and PuppetCinema (Salt of the Earth, 2014 Next Wave) employ cameras, puppets, and object theater to immerse audiences in a dystopian world where competing narratives lend calm to the chaos. Mountains of rusted metals and ruins form the disenchanted landscape in which a writer must create, no matter the cost, ultimately finding freedom in the depths of his fiction.
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Directed by Zvi Sahar Adapted by Zvi Sahar and Oded Littman Dramaturgy by Oded Littman Set and costume design by Aya Zaiger Music by Gai Sherf Sound Effects by Kobe Shmueli Lighting design by Ofer Laufer Puppets by Gili Kozin Ulmer , Yana Malishev , Amira Pinkas Puppettry Director: Goni Paz Collaborating Artists and Performers: Goni Paz / Ayelet Golan, Puppeteer Dani Halifa, Cinematographer Ilya Kreines, Cinematographer Simcha Barbiro, Actor Assaf Solomon, Actor Neta Plotnick, Actor Yuval Segal, Actor Assistant Director Dani Levi Co-Assisting Director Yoel Rizenkier |
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‘Suddenly’ development was supported by Asylum Small grant and Gettysburg College Research & Development Grant (for Designer Eric Berninghausen).
‘Suddenly’ was developed in part by the Visiting Artist program of Israel Institute, Washington, D.C., the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, the Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, and the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies at the University of Maryland.
With the following collaborators: Leslie Strongwater (Dramaturge and Production), Eric Berninghausen (Designer), Mark Costello (Cinematographer, light and projection), Tyler Gunther (Puppet Designer), Chelsey McLaughlin (Puppeteer) & Nitsan Scharf (Puppeteer).
‘Suddenly’ was developed in part by the Visiting Artist program of Israel Institute, Washington, D.C., the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, the Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, and the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies at the University of Maryland.
With the following collaborators: Leslie Strongwater (Dramaturge and Production), Eric Berninghausen (Designer), Mark Costello (Cinematographer, light and projection), Tyler Gunther (Puppet Designer), Chelsey McLaughlin (Puppeteer) & Nitsan Scharf (Puppeteer).
