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The Necromancers (Film London Jarman Award 2010)

Theatre director Steve Pearl talks about his chance meetings with a female ventriloquist.

Animation & Artists Moving Image 2010 3 mins

Overview

Theatre director Steve Pearl talks about his chance meetings with artist Lindsay Seers' Auntie Barbara, a female ventriloquist, and her Uncle Patrick, a stage performer with alternative personas, and explains their influence on Seers' subsequent deployment of ventriloquism and theatrical performance in her work.