THE CASE OF THE VANISHING GODS

By Ross LIPMAN

CORPUS FLUXUS - as PROD

Art - Culture - Completed 2022

an eclectic documentary/fiction hybrid on the history of ventriloquism from the prophetic tradition to the present day, as seen in clips from classic and not-so-classic works of cinema

Festivals
& Awards

Locarno 2021
Histoire(s) du Cinema. winner, Selezione Pixel (out of competition)
BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2022
BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2022
Genre & Experimental
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Art - Culture, Horror, Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 71 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ross LIPMAN
    • Writer(s)
    • Ross LIPMAN
    • Synopsis
    • A fable out of time told with puppets and film clips, The Case of the Vanishing Gods is a new kind of hybrid: half dream / half document. Our hero is a tortured ventriloquist’s dummy who’s lost his memory. Under hypnosis by a strange doctor, his lost memories are recovered - and relate a cultural history of ventriloquism from the prophetic tradition to the modern horror film. Join these two entwined figures on a strange journey into the hidden lives of puppets, and into the collective unconscious that links them to our own lives.

      Disguised as a sci-fi TV series that never existed, The Case of the Vanishing Gods pushes the essay film into exciting new territory