The film was also nominated for an ARIA Music Award for Best Video in 2014.
Here is a post about the video (which includes an interview with Busby Marou) on Yen Magazine
http://www.yenmag.net/music/busby-marou-video-premiere-my-second-mistake/
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In March 2014, puppeteer Kay Yasugi got on the puppet band wagon to film a music video for the Aussie folk duo Busby Marou to release their new song “A Second Mistake”. The film was directed by Renny Wijeyamohan (Open Door Films) and in case you may be feeling a little déjà vu, the puppets in the video are the very same ones that Kay made for a little Aussie doco about the Herpes virus on “Dating the H*Bomb” in 2012. They were revamped (and re-wigged) for a big adventure involving lots of different film locations (which roughly translates as Kay operating the puppets while lying in the middle of a field, a saloon and even perched near a cliff). A highlight was staging a rather amusing puppet brawl with another (live actor) cowboy (who actually happened to be really nice off screen). That, and Michael (the green puppet who stars in the video as “Woody”) getting to show off the fruits of his puppet gym workouts (which he was pretty pleased about).
The film was also nominated for an ARIA Music Award for Best Video in 2014. Here is a post about the video (which includes an interview with Busby Marou) on Yen Magazine http://www.yenmag.net/music/busby-marou-video-premiere-my-second-mistake/
In November 2013, Kay Yasugi was involved in performing at Melbourne’s La Mama theatre for an evening of experimental puppetry for adults. Artists came to present 4 short puppetry works in development. Kay worked with Tim Denton and Annie Forbes from AboutFace Productions on their show “What I Leave Behind” (and somehow she went from being an outside eye to one of the puppeteers in the piece!). Annie and Tim have gone on to perform their show at the Melbourne Fringe in October 2014.
Other artists who performed on the night included Rod Primrose, Beth McMahon and Mike Bevitt (The Indirect Object) with Gabriel Partington, Alison Richards and Debra Batton. In the words of the event's curator Nancy Black (from Black Hole Theatre), “The work was bold, rough, raw, funny and strong. The audience knew it was unfinished – and they responded with joy and excitement.”
The film was screened at Flickerfest in January 2014.
You can hear a radio interview about the film here http://www.2ser.com/component/k2/item/6806-interview-the-8-inch-pinch |
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