Her Master's Voice
Synopsis
The ventriloquist’s doll can kill off the watcher of the mind allowing access to spontaneity and imagination.
Acclaimed ventriloquist Nina Conti, takes the bereaved puppets of her mentor and erstwhile lover Ken Campbell on a pilgrimage to 'Venthaven', the resting place for puppets of dead ventriloquists.
She gets to know her traveling partners along the way, and through them deconstructs both herself and her lost love in this ventriloquial docu-mocumentary requiem.
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- Year
- 2012
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 64 mins
- Director
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Nina Conti 1st Feature
- Producer
- Nina Conti, Riaz Meer, Michael O'Kelly
- Executive Producer
- Christopher Guest
- Editor
- Riaz Meer
- Screenwriter
- Nina Conti
- Director of Photography
- Tim Jordan
- Sound
- Ana Walker & Phillipe Ciompi
- Composer
- Christoph Bauschinger
- Principal cast
- Nina Conti
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