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A stuffed, humanoid doll with a man's face projected onto it sits at a table in a room full of plastic-covered furniture.

Manakin

  Kasey Oldford

  U.S.     4 minutes

Synopsis

A single woman living alone is in search of a companion, so she builds one, stuffing discarded nylon stockings until they take on the approximate shape of a human man. Using found audio from the dating app Hinge and images of actors projected onto the doll, Manakin asks whether the woman has ended her loneliness or compounded it.

This film screens as part of Shorts Program 10: Outré.

 English 

Film Credits

  •   Cassie Archdeacon
  •   Kasey Oldford
  •   Leo Gallagher
  •   Mitch Davis, Dan Hickey, Connor Lewis, Gabe Merizalde, Kasey Oldford, Nate Reagle, Frederick Rivera, Ben Root, Tyler Thompson, Nick Whalen
  •   Zubin FC
  •   AE Vision
  •   https://www.kaseyoldford.nyc/manakin

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