Candyman with Manual Cinema
A special presentation of Candyman (2021) along with a selection of short films by Manual Cinema, who created the incredible shadow puppetry used in the feature. Stay for a post-screening discussion with the artistic directors of Manual Cinema.
Oscar winner Jordan Peele and filmmaker Nia DaCosta unleash a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend: Candyman. For decades, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook-handed killer. In the present day, an artist (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.
Manual Cinema Shorts Screening before Candyman:
Future Feeling, 8min, dir. Ben Kauffman
Equal parts haunted-house mystery and climate fiction, Future Feeling tells the story of family who wakes up on a Nantucket beach to find a mysterious house--with no memory of how they got there.
Chicagoland, 11min, dir. Ben Kauffman
Follows a lone urban coyote in search of sustenance for herself and her pups while navigating the perils of the Chicago landscape.
Three WWI Poems, 9min, dir. Drew Dir
This animated short brings three war poems to life with innovative puppetry and animation work, each vignette sharing a different experience of “the war to end all wars” from a soldier’s point of view.
Candyman Short, 3min, dirs. Drew Dir, Nia DaCosta
Teaser short featuring Manual Cinema's shadow puppetry.
About Manual Cinema
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.
Manual Cinema is in Boston for a run of their new feature length show, The 4th Witch, at Arts Emerson October 30-Nov 9.
