It takes a lot of guts to make your thoughts speak into a puppet that everyone knows you're controlling and Nina Conti is a master at it. This intimate self portrait is of a performer at a crossroad, having a public discussion with herself about the future of a career that seems to have hit a dead end. What she finds is a weird form of puppet-master identity crisis, and uncovers a whole new self yet to explore. A brilliant, poignant, strangely beautiful condition of a mind, within a mind, within a mind looking back at itself, and at us looking at it/them. Conti is a creative genius, who seeks her muse in this film and follows it deep, to find where it leads through the voices of the inanimate made to animate. Ventriloquism has an intectual side! She must've questioned herself a million times before finally finishing this. Well done. Cannot wait to see what she creates next, with or without a puppet to hide behind.
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