Belly Talkers (1996)

Speaking without moving your lips is an ancient art, practiced very seriously already in ancient Egypt. Today's ventriloquists are mostly found in the entertainment world, although today's stand-up artists less often use a talking doll as a partner. Filmmaker Sandra Luckow, herself a ventriloquist from the United States, made a trip with her doll Juanito, who is from Mexico, to study the tradition and regrowth of the peculiar art.