For decades the disemboweled carcasses of cows and bulls have turned up in pastures all across America. What could possibly cause this unholy and inexplicable bovine pandemic?
Why isn't this covered in mainstream media? Where can one find the answers? Perhaps only a puppet show can reveal the truth.
Starting as a short theater piece in 1996, AlienCow Puppet show is now a film that has been produced by Heather Henson as part of her Handmade Dreams Film Series.
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The film gives us a glimpse of the uncelebrated life of a Texas cattle rancher on one auspicious evening.
There is a myth that cows are mutilated by aliens performing autopsies for purposes presumably scientific but certainly unnatural.
The film takes us where the theater performance could not: out in the field where the mysterious events took place.
Is this real or a Farmer's fantasy?
What happened that night?
Only the audience can answer these questions.
The theater show was first created at the Eugene O’ Neill Theater Center in 1996. It has since been performed many times in venues from Atlanta to Vermont. Most notably at the Jim Henson Festival Cabaret night in 1996 and at the Center for Puppetry Arts in 1999.
The puppets are performed with a style of puppetry influenced by Czech black puppetry and Japanese Bunraku and involves non-verbal storytelling.
The location of the story is East Texas, but the film was shot in an area just north of Atlanta, Georgia, and used the talents of puppeteers from Atlanta who have trained at performed at the Center for Puppetry Arts.