Watched on MUBI.
An entire city has lost its voice. Mr. TV, the owner of the city’s only television channel, is carrying out a sinister plan to control all of the city’s inhabitants. He kidnaps a singer, the only one who still has The Voice. An inventor witnesses the kidnapping and flees to thwart approaching doom.
Written and directed by the Argentine filmmaker Esteban Sapir in 2007. Nobody has an audible voice but their words hang in the air as typography. It has a “Guy Maddin making METROPOLIS” vibe, but with a higher speed of visual invention.
“Alimentos TV” – TV Food. Makes me think of VIDEODROME for some reason. Elsewhere it really hits like Maddin’s HEART OF THE WORLD.
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