Nina Conti Her Masters Voice (2012)

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 documockumentary 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