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Haunted by the ghosts of their past and future, a baker and a schoolchild both hear the same buzzing of a broken globe in a post-silent cinema melodrama about friendship and the proposition of reading, writing, and reckoning in an artificial landscape.

A movie in search of silence begins with two singers mutely clapping blocks of wood in the middle of a field, then dives in and out of a felt pen landscape, promising to tell a story through song. A baker, a man, a spy, a schoolchild, masked servants and the company they keep are all introduced in ambiguous relation to one another via intertitled dialogues. Where is my friend, they ask, whilst the broken teeth of the piano play a tune of heartbreak and desire. Meanwhile a mentor and student tour a house of learning, after which the student sits down to connect the dots of the ongoing story. When all the characters meet to discuss roles, everyone wants to know, who will play the bad guy?

Produced by Albert McCloud and The Gray Voice Ensemble, 2025

Scripted/scored, directed & edited by Elisabeth Wood

Assistant direction by J.R. Blank

Camera by Stefanie Walk & Elisabeth Wood

VFX by Mario Campos Castellano

Cast:

Ori Behr, Michael Breithaupt, Sam Gahr, Anouk Kuhn, Sabine Kuhn, Laura Brophy, Jean Stone Wood, Melanie Velarde, Ailsa MacKenzie, Elisabeth Wood, Olivia Berning, Polli Berning, Sasha Gurinova, Vera Gurinova, Max Martens, Jana Papenbroock, Anri Papenbroock, Henri Steegmann.