GLITCH PUPPETS is speculative store and interactive short fiction written and created by Mengna Da, completed within a week in a hackthon style at IMA Low Res, NYU, in 2024.

If puppets is a metaphor for control and power, then GLITCH PUPPETS is a metaphor for autonomy and disruption. In a society where sexual, racial, and computational violence is normalized, GLITCH is necessary to reveal, question, and rewrite those power structures.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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FILMS

The Conjuring. Directed by James Wan. 2013.

Annabelle. Directed by John R. Leonetti. 2014.

Annabelle: Creation. Directed by David F. Sandberg. 2017.

Annabelle Comes Home. Directed by Gary Dauberman. 2019.

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. Directed by Mamoru Oshii. 2004.

Pinocchio. Directed by Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson, Norm Ferguson, Bill Roberts, T. Hee, and Jack Kinney. 1940.

Ex Machina. Directed by Alex Garland. 2015.