This screening offers a unique journey into Diego Marcon’s body of work. Engaged primarily with moving images, Marcon subverts cinematic conventions to explore how popular media shapes collective beliefs. The artist adopts and perverts the language of horror films, Disney musicals, home movies, cartoons, slapstick comedy and fairytales into haunting experimental shorts that often use the loop as a conceptual device. He is interested in drawing attention to the structures that underpin film and video, working with a range of techniques that underscore its materiality: CGI, animatronic puppets, prosthetic masks, hand-painted cameraless animations, or exposed film.
The screening will bring together works that appropriate the imagery and sounds from the Winnie-the-Pooh and Donald the Duck cartoons – All Pigs Must Die 2015 and ToonsTunes (Four Pathetic Movements) 2016 respectively – and showcase the artist’s hand painted animations: Head falling 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 2015; Untitled (Young Girl) 2017 and Il Malatino 2017. It will also present films made with CGI that, in their extreme realism, feel uncannily familiar yet evoke aversion and restlessness.
