[spectre] LUXEMBOURG PAVILION VENICE BIENNALE 2005 (Modified by Geert Lovink) [u]

[Patrick Kremer]

ANTOINE PRUM

"Mondo Veneziano -
High Noon in the Sinking City"

Starring Otto Berchem, Marianne Greber, Taygun Nowbary and Andrei 
Volfson.

LUX, HD Video/35mm, 33’00’’, 16/9, colour, English/German, English s.t.,
Dolby SR
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For Luxembourg's participation in the 51st edition of the Venice 
Biennale,
artist and filmmaker Antoine Prum wrote and directed a medium length 
film
shot in High Definition (HD) technology and transferred to 35mm film.

Along with the traditional pavilion at Ca' del Duca, the film will be
screened on a regular basis at the Giorgione Cinema Movie d'essai, run 
by
the Cinematography Department of the Commune of Venice.

It premieres at the Giorgione Cinema Movie d'essai on Friday, 10 June 
2005,
from 18h00 onwards, in a succession of screenings.

"Mondo Veneziano. High Noon in the Sinking City" addresses a wide 
variety of
theoretical discourses currently on the contemporary art agenda, 
confronting
them with a series of unexpected and spectacular events. Cast in an
abandoned Venice, "Mondo Veneziano" narrates a meeting of four 
protagonists,
representative of key players in the art world, who appear to conduct a
complex theoretical debate.

But their soliloquious confrontation — an insidious patchwork of 
quotations
from recent specialist literature, paraphrasing the widely used
"post-modern" technique of sampling — is interrupted by a string of 
bloody
killings, largely inspired by common cinema genres such as gore or 
splatter
movies.

The Venice that serves as a backdrop to the characters' intellectual and
physical joust is in reality a large-scale film set located in a 
southern
town in Luxembourg, which has served in numerous feature films. "Mondo
Veneziano" does not attempt to conceal the backlot; rather, the city 
itself
becomes something of a quotation, much like the protagonists, who are
depicted as actors rehearsing their comic-style figures for a final
showdown. Alternating sinuous discursive phases with resolute physical
action, "Mondo Veneziano" is a part serious, part caustic comment on a
professional milieu.
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The film was commissioned by the Ministry of Culture, Higher Education 
and
Research, Luxembourg.
Technical co-producers: Télésparks S.A., Luxembourg & PTD Studio,
Luxembourg.
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A publication, supported by the Fonds Culturel National, Luxembourg, is
available from Revolver - Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt am Main 
(ISBN
3-86588-120-3).
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A press kit including illustrations free of copyrights is available at:
www.mondoveneziano.net

For further information, please contact: contact at mondoveneziano.net
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Dates: 12 June to 6 November 2005
Opening: Friday, 10 June 2005, 18h00
Location: Cinema Movie d'essai Giorgione, Cannaregio 4612, Venezia (T: 
+39
041 522 62 98/Vaporetto: Ca' d'Oro, Linea 1)
Pavilion: Ca' del Duca, Corte del Duca Sforza, San Marco 3052, Venezia 
(T/F:
+ 39 041 520 75 34/Vaporetto: Accademia, Linea 1 or 82)
Hours: Tue-Sun, 10h00-18h00