Presented free to the public in a tiny gallery inside the museum’s entrance, “Oz Is for Oznowicz: A Puppet Family’s History” continues at the Jewseum through Nov. 27. Read more ⤵️
Decades before Frank Oz was bringing Miss Piggy and Yoda to life, his parents, Mike and Frances Oznowicz, were creating puppets of their own, and using puppetry as a means of parody and resistance in Nazi-era Belgium.
“We spoke with Karen Falk, the director of archives for the Jim Henson Company, about Jewish and/or Bay Area ties to Henson and his work,” Rabben says. “We knew that Frank Oz was Jewish and grew up in Oakland, and Karen told us about his family’s marionettes and their extraordinary history.” The centerpiece attraction is a Hitler puppet, a 20-inch-tall marionette with a Nazi uniform, black mustache and right arm raised in a Nazi salute. It is presented as it existed when Oz discovered it — no spruce-up has occurred. We don’t know if the couple used it in their performances, but it is believed that the two created it for the purpose of satire and social comment.
“And then you factor in the time period when it was shot … so it’s also using some of the earliest available consumer video recording equipment, a Sony Portapak.” “One can presume that figures with power in a society, be they monarchs, religious leaders or politicians, were typically the most known figures of the time because their lives and choices impacted the greater society significantly. So that often made them the central target of critique, mimicry and mockery in puppetry and many other forms of artistic expression.”
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