Overview

A gothic melodrama, a puppet show, a slide show, a shadow play set to live jazz, and a behind-the-scenes look at how the magic is made: Ava/Ada is all that and more. In a CGI era, the Manual Cinema artists' collective uses paper cutouts, transparencies, and overhead projectors to tell a haunting tale of elderly twins separated by death- or perhaps not. The New York Times wrote Ava/Ada is "an unclassifiable story of spectral beauty."