Mondo Veneziano: High Noon in the Sinking City

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2005 · 33 min · Horror · Drama

Overview

Merging the traditions of art house and splatter, Mondo Veneziano: High Noon in the Sinking City pokes fun at the bloated importance of discursive theories in contemporary art. Cast in an abandoned Venice – a derelict film set in Luxembourg, as it turns out – this short fiction relates a meeting of a curator, a theorist, a painter and a “relational” artist who appear to engage in complex theoretical debates. Their verbal confrontation – a grotesque patchwork of quotes that mocks the art world’s infatuation with sampling and referencing – is punctuated by a string of dreamlike sequences in which the stereotypical characters are seen killing each other in the best tradition of mondo films.

Directed by Antoine Prum

Cast

• Otto Berchem — Convivial Artist
• Marianne Gerber — Curator
• Taygun Nowbary — Painter
• Andreï Volfson — Theorist
• Gaetano Coletta — Waiter