Kawamoto the Puppet Master: National Media Museum Programme Details

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    National Media Museum

    Based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, the award-winning National Media Museum is home to 10 free galleries, 2 cinemas and an IMAX theatre. The museum is part of the NMSI Museums Group and has become the most visited national museum outside of London with some 700,000 visits a year. It recently added a £3m interactive TV gallery, and it's collection already houses more than three million artefacts.

    Bradford, West Yorkshire BD1 1NQ

    Box Office: 0870 70 10 200

    www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk

Screening at the National Media Museum from Fri 9 - Thu 15 May:

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    Demons, Poets & Priests PG

    A selection of Kawamoto‘s finest short films, including the haunting ghost story The Demon, and foreign myths and fairytales in To Shoot Without Shooting, adapted from a tale set in ancient China. The programme will be introduced by Jaspar Sharp.

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    Absurdities, Legends and Fairy Tales PG

    The second programme of Kawamoto’s short films celebrates the fantastic, the mystical and the arcane, including the haunting ghost story The Demon and the surreal collage animation The Trip.

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    The Book of the Dead 12A

    Set in Japan in the mid-8th century when Buddhism was introduced from China, this story of a battle fought between the spiritual and material world represents the crowning achievement of Kawamoto’s creative practice.

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