Mondo Veneziano: High Noon in the Sinking City (2005)

Mondo Veneziano: High Noon in the Sinking City

2005

Horror Drama

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Antoine Prum

Cast

Andreï Volfson as Theorist

Carla Gutenkauf-Grün as Babuschka

Gaetano Coletta as Waiter

Laure Junio as Babuschka

Marianne Gerber as Curator

Otto Berchem as Convivial Artist

Taygun Nowbary as Painter

Crew