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Big nose: Takeshi Hoshino with the Tasmanian Puppet Theatre

Australia, 1976
film

This film explores the concept of puppetry as an art form as it goes backstage at the Tasmanian Puppet Theatre. Takeshi Hoshino, art director from Japan’..

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