Post of an Interest; Shadow Play

I have always been fascinated with shadows that relate to art and animation. I've seen hours worth of Shadow plays and the idea of getting involved with the storyline, the setting, and especially the characters without actually seeing them is fascinating. You can see the outline of everything, but there aren't any details and you focus more on the story or what the characters are doing and how they interact. You aren't focusing as much on how they look. You see the character and along with the story you can become emotionally involved, however you know and can feel that there's a barrier between yo and them. They are"hiding" behind something, which makes you close to them, but also far way. Figuratively, of course.
Shadow play can be viewed as simplistic as you usually don't have to worry about color schemes, unless of course you add colors. You can also continue a story much easier. For example, in this commercial;

You can see around 27 seconds in that it changes from the woman, to a cut out. That's why I enjoy cut out shadow plays. You can still draw & sketch on paper what you want to happen, and then you can keep working and cut the designs out and make a story.
Animation dealing with shadows could and can be made with flash or any drawing program, and I would love to do that. However, there's something more... not old fashion, not authentic, but something that I find more interesting in creating a tangible thing and using it to tell a story, hand shadows aren't bad either.
It originated from West Asia and has greatly influenced me and my works.

It also has this rather interesting version of Jaws;