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-mocumentary requiem. Ken Campbell was a hugely respected maverick of the British Theatre, an eccentric genius who would snort out forgotten artforms. Nina was his prodigy 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.
2012
HD
64min
United States
English
Nina Conti
Brad Cummings
Jim Broadbent
Nacho Estrada
Dan Horn
Kevin Johnson
Jay Johnson
Bob Hoskins
Ken Campbell
Daisy Campbell
woman director
ventriloquist
pilgrimage
ventriloquists dummy
