'In his latest film, The Case of the Vanishing Gods, Lipman delves into that dynamic through a fictional/documentary hybrid. A ventriloquist’s figure named Hugo has lost his memory.' | kerryreid
, Lipman delves into that dynamic through a fictional/documentary hybrid. A ventriloquist’s figure named Hugo has lost his memory. Under hypnosis, his memories are recovered in the form of a history of ventriloquism, from “prophetic tradition to the modern horror film.” In addition to, an anthology of stories that concludes with the tale of Michael Redgrave’s mentally imbalanced ventriloquist Maxwell Frere , as one of the inspirations.
For this project, Lipman called on the talents of members of Chicago’s Theater Oobleck, with whom he’s been friends since their college days at the University of Michigan in the 1980s. David Isaacson plays the hypnotist Doctor Labyrinth, with Jeff Dorchen as the voice of Hugo. “I always like working with friends, and it’s very helpful when they’re coincidentally as talented as this group,” says Lipman with a laugh. “So one thing led to another. Once the roles became apparent, David is just such a great host and moderator that I quickly envisioned him in the role. The film’s in part a love letter to the classic 1950s horror comic books, with David as the demented host inviting you into his lair.
Isaacson too has used ventriloquism as a metaphor for mind control in his work for Oobleck. In 1991’s , a CIA agent/ventriloquist, Secret Agent Man , narrated the show while also messing with texts by two survivors of the cold war: Czech dissident/playwright/president Václav Havel’s black comedy“At the center of the film to me is Ross’s restoration work and his interest in the history of film,” says Isaacson. “And in this case, the history of ventriloquism on television and on film.
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