Mondo Veneziano: High Noon in the Sinking City (2005)
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.
Director: Antoine Prum
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Otto Berchem as Convivial Artist |
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Marianne Gerber as Curator |
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Taygun Nowbary as Painter |
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Andreï Volfson as Theorist |
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Gaetano Coletta as Waiter |
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Carla Gutenkauf-Grün as Babuschka |
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Laure Junio as Babuschka |
| Writing | Antoine Prum | Writer |
| Camera | Erik Krambeck | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Antoine Prum | Director |
