MONELLE

2017, 16”, produced by In Between Art Film

DIEGO MARCON

Born in Busto Arsizio in 1985 and currently based in Milano, Italy. He graduated in film editing at the Scuola Civica di Cinema, Televisione e Nuovi Media di Milano and got a BA Degree in Visual Arts at the IUAV University of Venezia. His practice deals with the relation between reality and representation, questioning the ontology of the moving image and its possibility to be tool for knowledge and invastigation of the real.

In Diego Marcon’s film MONELLE (2017), a number of young girls lie asleep between the architectural elements of the Casa del Fascio in Como — one of the most important modernist architecture designed by Giuseppe Terragni. Flashlights shine in the space, making the images appear for an instant — just the time necessary for the exposed frames to register with the viewer’s gaze before being plunged back into darkness. Around the sleeping bodies, some presences developed in CGI animation occupy the architecture and move around the space in obscure activities: nothing of their actions is visible to us, except in the fragments in which the image shows itself under the flashlight.

MONELLE is a circular film without any narrative or hierarchy, without a beginning or an end, and it circumscribes a place of promiscuity and ambiguity between the different formats used — 35mm and CGI animation — and the approaches of two opposites film attitudes, that is the structural cinema and the horror genre.