"Combining close-ups of redundant technology gleaned from 1960s US sci-fi television series with a female voice of a '40s Hollywood melodrama, MANUAL makes absolute detachment clash with magnified emotion. With its record of the minutiae of endless buttons, switches and control panels and its choreography of a machine-like body language, MANUAL reduces the notion of any manageability of life to sheer absurdity." (Vila do Conde Short Film Festival, Portugal, 2005)