STO Union

WAKE – 2021 season – 19 minute video
Wake is about the life and death of the artist George Acheson. A stunning number of people loss their lives due to overdoses during the pandemic and WAKE is an expression of heart aching loss of a best friend and great artist.

The Band Played a Love Song at the Kaffé •
2021 • Video • Puppets at the local bar fall under the spell of the band, until the music stops. Hand made puppets and artwork made by the people of Wakefield Quebec.

Stay Calm Make Cash •
2021 • Loop • Video • Recycled Art
Video, editor and puppeteer: Nadia Ross • Video, set and puppeteer: Rob Scott • Puppet: Rick Ritza • Sign: Randolph MacMillan • Costume: Heidi Honegger

Hello World • 2021 • 3:17 Video • In response to STO Union’s international tours being cancelled for two years due to the pandemic, the German festival Theater der Welt reached out to the artists it had programmed and asked them to make a three-minute video in lieu of travelling there to perform.

Living in a Market Society Is Harsh •
2021 • 26 seconds • Video • Credits: Text, edit and music: Nadia Ross • Video: Rob Scott and Nadia Ross • Puppeteers: Ross and Scott and the villagers of Wakefield • Puppet by: William Hamilton St-Aumond • Set and costumes: Stephanie Hill, Rob Scott, Heidi Honegger, Nadia Ross.

Business is our Mother • 2018 • :37 seconds • Video • A puppet pontificates on how business has taken over everything Credits: Writer, editor: Nadia Ross Videographers: Rob Scott and Nadia Ross Voice… more

(P.O.R.N.) Portrait of Restless Narcissism • Ad Number 2 • 2020 • Video • Currently on display • Ad promoting the 2020 production of P.O.R.N. (Portrait of Restless Narcissism) by Lionel Arnould. more…

Good News from the Sun (Part 2) is a short video project that uses puppets, live documentary footage and animation to tell the story of a theatre director who is asked to work with local youths in her village to create a play. The power dynamics shift as the teenagers grow up and move on to bigger cities and with their lives, leaving the director without a group to work with.

The Seeker Puppet Movie • 2015 • 20:16 minutes • Video • Currently not on display • In this video, the Seeker is still trying to find herself through her work as an artist with questionable results. more …