See It To Be It | Oliver Hymans
V&A / V&A Up Next
Producer
This short film meets professional puppet maker Oliver Hymans at his studio at Little Angel Theatre, where he's Associate Director. Oliver is trained in marionette puppetry making, an ancient art form that was added to the Heritage Crafts Red List of Endangered Crafts in 2023 due to a shortage of people learning how to make marionette string puppets. Oliver is passionate about passing the skill of marionette puppetry down through the generations to keep it alive.
*See It To Be It is the V&A Up Next series where we meet artists and makers in their studio and find out what they do and how they do it.
CREW
Guest: Oliver Hymans
Producer: Ruth Smith
Filmmaker: James Hough
Camera Operator: George Henton
Executive Producer: Kirstie Beaven
With thanks to Little Angel Theatre.
Little Angel Theatre is a puppet theatre in Islington, London that opened in 1961. Little Angel Theatre pushes the boundaries of what puppetry can be, whilst preserving its heritage and raising awareness for it through productions on stage; through schools' outreach, community workshops and through puppetry training/professional development for aspiring puppet makers and puppeteers.
