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Nina Conti: Her Master's Voice (2012)
Directed by Nina Conti
Overview
Internationally 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 latex and wooden travelling partners along the way, and with them deconstructs herself and her lost love in this ventriloquial docu-mockumentary requiem. Ken Campbell was a hugely respected maverick of the British theatre, an eccentric genius who would snort out forgotten artforms. Nina was his protégé in ventriloquism and has been said to have reinvented the artform. This film is truly unique in genre and style. No one has seen ventriloquism like this before.
Length 64 minutes
Actors
Nina Conti | Jim Broadbent | Brad Cummings | Nacho Estrada | Dan Horn | Bob Hoskins | Jay Johnson | Kevin Johnson | Ken Campbell | Daisy Campbell