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Indonesian shadow puppets skip the third dimension
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Realism is a waste of perfectly good leather. Wayang Kulit theater utilizes incredibly intricate, flat leather puppets cast against a backlit screen. The audience only ever sees the sprawling, complex shadows of these wildly stylized figures. It is essentially the world's most dramatic, low-budget cinematic experience crafted entirely from perforated buffalo hide and a single oil lamp.
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