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Behind the Shadows  (2025)
A cultural bridge between China & Greece threw the shadow puppetry art


10.0|23 Apr, 2025|14 min
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The Greek shadow puppetry began 130 years ago. A student of Greek shadow puppetry travels to China, where shadow puppetry began over 2000 years ago. There he follows Chinese shadow puppeteer master He Shihong in Wushan of China. Watching his performances and listening to him talk about his art and his career in it, many parallels are drawn and he expresses them by including his Greek shadow puppetry teacher in the film. This documentary is a cultural bridge between Greece and China through the art of shadow puppetry.
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Keywords
china
greece
art
ethnographical
ethnographic film
shadow theater
shadow puppetry
karagiozis
θέατρο σκιών
καραγκιόζης

Casts

Shihong He
Shihong He
Shadow Puppeteer
Mpampis Makris
Mpampis Makris
Shadow Puppeteer

Crews

Konstantinos Potamianos
Konstantinos Potamianos
Director
Konstantinos Potamianos
Konstantinos Potamianos
Director of Photography
Konstantinos Potamianos
Konstantinos Potamianos
Editor
Konstantinos Potamianos
Konstantinos Potamianos
Sound
Zhiyan Ye
Producer
Dimitris Delinikolas
Dimitris Delinikolas
Supervising Art Director
Konstantinos Potamianos
Konstantinos Potamianos
Writer