A R C H I E F1 9 9 8  
16th
  Marcello Mercado
The Warm Place
  Argentina 1998
Videotape, 36:03, colour, stereo
 
Every image always consists of the components of which that image is made. But what happens if all the components are detached from each other, every image fragmented and the parts mixed together? This video seems to be a personal reconstruction built up out of a mountain of parts, a reconstruction of the fragmentation of historic images caused by violence, but without the opportunity of finding out what happened. They are video fragments, drawings, photos, hand-painted slides, symbols, sounds: every form of image and sound seems to be present in this bright world of fragments tumbling through each other and round each other in all the colours of the rainbow. And in this world everything seems to have fallen apart: images, text, the world and its history. No image remains what it was and a personal interpretation has been added to each image that refers to a maker who is off screen. A new coherence is introduced, new meanings assigned by the sequence of images, but also by the new combinations of image elements in a frame. The image language reminds one of websites and CD-ROMs and the viewer gets the urge to stop the image and get to the bottom of what is being shown here. What motivates the choice of images? Are they aesthetic motivations or other things that lead to this stream of images? Finally, this bombardment of images does come to rest. The sound changes to music. A beast hangs by one leg, waiting to be slaughtered: it is the stripping down and fragmentation of a living being. With this comes an end to the wealth of possibilities. Born, lived and died. And slaughtered, divided up by others and becoming a part of their history, never again to be reconstructed back to what it was.

– Carla Hoekendijk

Music: Rei Rolle, Enrique Deschutter, Luis Lewin, Mariello Mercade, Sound: Marios Carreno, Voices: Fermacion Senera 1, Escuela de Teatre, Universidad Nacienal de Cerdeba Light: Luis Funes, Editing: Pablo Remano, Antonio Pita, Archive material: Carram Films, Miravalles Films, Taier Films, Savance Films, With: Monica Ferrando, Gerardo Gudino, Eduardo Las Heras, Agustin Villafante Production: Ruben Mercado, Guillermo Miravalles, Mario Savanio, Diana Pintes

Marcello Mercado ° 1963, Chaco (Argentina)
Lives and works in Cordoba (Argentina)


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