Mondo Veneziano: High Noon in the Sinking City

Mondo Veneziano: High Noon in the Sinking City 2005 Directed by Antoine Prum Mondo Veneziano

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.

Country Luxembourg

Production Country Luxembourg

Language English

Spoken Language English

Gneres Drama , Horror

Production Company Maciste Film

Release Date 8 June 2005

33 mins