Mime artist

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A Mime artist on the Ponte Sant'Angelo
A Mime artist on the Ponte Sant'Angelo

A mime artist is someone who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art.

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Silent film comedians like Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton learned the craft of mime in the theatre but through film had a profound influence on mimes who work in live theatre even decades after their death. Indeed, Chaplin may be the best documented mime in history.

The famous French comedian, writer and director Jacques Tati achieved his initial popularity working as a mime, and indeed his later films had only minimal dialogue, relying instead on many subtle expertly choreographed visual gags. Tati, like Chaplin before him, would mime out the movements of every single character in his films and ask his actors to repeat them.

Mimes have often appeared in science fiction and fantasy films. The physical training of the mime when combined with a well designed costume can result in a fantastic, yet believable creature. In this regard, the distinction between mime and puppeteer has become blurred. More recent developments in computer animation such as motion capture or mocap technology allow for actors' movements to be used in creating animated characters. As a result, some mimes are beginning to work with animators in creating characters.

Mimes have also been portrayed in film, most notably in Les Enfants du Paradis, which featured both Jean-Louis Barrault in the role of Jean-Gaspard Deburau and Decroux as his father. However, when mimes are portrayed in film, it is just as common for filmmakers to have actors with little mime training to perform a stereotype of a mime as it is for a skilled artist to either perform or choreograph the performance on screen.


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