The Man from Mauritius

In a decaying house haunted by surveillance orbs, singing rats, and ghostly television signals, a lonely old woman falls under the spell of a mysterious man from Mauritius, whose call offers escape from isolation through ecstatic annihilation.

Winifred Little is a lonely old woman living in a decaying house haunted by surveillance orbs, singing rats, ghostly television signals, and malfunctioning devices. Isolated from the outside world, Winnie becomes convinced that mysterious forces from the island of Mauritius are communicating with her through the television. As soap operas, nature programs, and commercials begin to merge with her everyday reality, she falls under the spell of Lieutenant Daniel Wilson, a handsome sailor who seems to be reaching out to her from another world.

Unable to reach her mysterious suitor by telephone, Winnie begins to see him everywhere, even in the hulking stranger who preaches to the crows outside her window. Determined to make contact, she sets in motion a series of increasingly absurd events that culminate in an unexpected encounter. What begins as an unlikely romance becomes a grotesque and ecstatic journey in which fantasy, memory, media, and mortality dissolve into one another. Combining absurdist theater, puppetry, practical effects, handcrafted cinematic illusions, and the imaginative use of generative AI, The Man from Mauritius is a darkly comic fairy tale about loneliness, the longing for connection, and the mysterious boundary between annihilation and transcendence.

Director: Joseph Graham

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