Manipulate Festival
Manipulate, produced by Puppet Animation Scotland is Scotland's Festival of visual theatre, puppetry and animation.
About Manipulate Festival
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The 2021 festival will take place across two platforms which represent new ways of working for MANIPULATE – a dynamic Digital Festival crammed with performance, workshops, screenings and talks, and an immersive new kinetic sculpture artwalk, with commissioned moving artworks and soundscapes by eight Scottish-based artists visiting three cities across Scotland.
Situated in the darkness of the long Scottish winter, each year MANIPULATE Festival brings audiences together to experience boundary-pushing visually led work, and to share artistic practice. With the coming winter shaping up to be a particularly long and dark one, we recognise that the need for a spark of connection is greater than ever.
In these circumstances, we wanted to create a programme which would enable us to collaborate with the widest range of Scotland’s visual performance artists, puppeteers and animators. The artists and works that we present to you this year offer provocation, renewal and escapism. The works speak in many ways most strongly to finding connection – with one another, with the world around us and with the self within.
MANIPULATE Festival 2021 is also a space for experimentation, to play with new ways of making and of experiencing work. The programme comprises an exciting blend of artists who were originally lined up to perform their works live in Edinburgh at MANIPULATE, and have instead adapted their work to film or are experimenting in a digital space, alongside artists whose work was specifically created for an online context in the COVID-19 era.
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Upcoming Events at Manipulate Festival
Manipulate Festival: Restless Worlds - A Kinetic Sculpture Artwalk - POSTPONED
All across the city, in a moment of wider social and cultural upheaval, curious hidden worlds are shifting and revealing their secrets.
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Manipulate Festival - Bringing the Metaphor to Life
In this playful and sensitive exploration of everyday objects as symbolic communication, metaphors such as a cup half full or treading on eggshells are brought from the page to the stage.
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Manipulate Festival - Tank
Tank is a one-woman show combining live performance, UV light, and digital animation. It is part of SNAPSHOTS, a strand of programming at MANIPULATE.
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Manipulate Festival - The Yellow Canary
The Yellow Canary is both an epic true story and a leap into the imagination of a young child desperate to escape the horrors of war, exploring love, loss and what it means to flee your home.
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Manipulate Festival - Unboxed
Unboxed is a funny, sensitive and scary fantasy about a lonely man trying to get in touch with himself and the world.
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Manipulate Festival - The Lonely Sailor Weather Report
Far out to sea, where land-based networks begin to crackle and skip on the boundaries of their limited existence, our lonesome sailor sits, motionless at first, then rising slowly.
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Manipulate Festival - Ballad of the Crone
Ballad of the Crone is a physical theatre performative lecture about connections, inheritance and loss.
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Manipulate Festival: Ill-Lit
A powerful aerial and physical theatre performance using the Japanese art of shibari (rope bondage) exploring mental health, cycles of repetition and the struggle to break out.
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Manipulate Festival - (Dream) Engine Offline Memory Processor
[dream]ENGINE harnesses the ethereal quality of dreams through immersive AV design, somatic choreography and the art of contortion.
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Manipulate Festival - Eat Me
EAT ME is a luscious, incendiary theatre show about unconventional love, chaos, control and the shifting complexities of power.
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Manipulate Festival - Animated Highlights - ESFF
Edinburgh Short Film Festival returns to the Manipulate Festival to curate another dynamic and vibrant programme of award-winning international short animated films!
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Manipulate Festival - Drackattack
Get your winter bod ready-blue and stiff – for the vampiric party tune of the season!
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Manipulate Festival - Today I Bake
Today I Bake is a visually compelling exploration of themes sourced from Grimm’s Rumpelstiltskin. Intense, intriguing, brave and uncomfortable, with flickers of dark humour.
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Manipulate Festival - Object Theatre and the Virtual Stage
In the workshop we will explore our immediate environment and what we have in it – our home and the virtual space we are in all together.
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Manipulate Festival - Crunch
Brought to life at a time of newly heard birdsong. David and Sita present Crunch, an intimate journey of a nimble figure in a barren world with a taste for the… crunchy?
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Manipulate Festival - Animated Womxn
A womxn-led showcase of extraordinary and award-winning stop-frame and VFX from the animated film industry.
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Manipulate Festival - Drink ‘N’ Draw with Panimation
Panimation, a multi-platform community for women, trans and non-binary people working within animation and motion graphics, hosts a Drink'N'Draw workshop as part of Manipulate Festival 2021.
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Manipulate Festival - The End of TV
THE END OF TV depicts the promise and decline of the American rust belt, through the stories of Flo and Louise, both residents of a fictional Midwestern city.
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