"You must remember that there is a strong spirit of anarchy in puppet history... Puppet animation is a footnote to cinema."-Brothers QuayThe puppet has long been used to suggest political subjugation, but more recent is the use of puppets to portray women's experience. Janie Geiser creates a world of coded languages in which women attempt to reconfigure their utterances and environment in The Red Book. Nancy Andrews's digressive narrative, Woods Marm, centers on an isolated woman, herself a keen observer, while in Laura Heit's Parachute, a woman tries to rescue herself. Fae Yamaguchi's wonderfully low-tech puppet worlds are populated by oddball characters, from oversized dogs to toy-size people. In The Comb, Brothers Quay create a subversive yet magical dream world where scale fluctuates and meaning multiplies. Marjut Rimminen, working with Christine Roche, based Stain on a newspaper article; here, the dark, hidden side of a family is slowly revealed through the alternative world of puppets mixed with other animation techniques.-Kathy Geritz