Diego Marcon
La Gola
The film La Gola, made by the Italian artist for the Biennial of the Moving Image 2024, remains on view until 26 May 2024 at Cinema Dynamo.
Diego Marcon
La Gola
2024
Digital video transferred from 35mm film, CGI animation, color, sound, 22’22’’
A production of the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève for BIM’24, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Kunsthalle Wien et Sadie Coles HQ, London; with the support of Fonds d’art contemporain de la Ville de Genève (FMAC) and Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain de Genève (FCAC).
La Gola is an epistolary film that follows an exchange of letters between two characters, Gianni and Rossana. Gianni recounts the many courses of a dinner prepared by his friend, a chef, while Rossana describes her ailing mother’s progressively worsening symptoms. The film is an exploration of melodrama, creating a visual cinematic narrative common to the genre. Primarily focusing on the moving image, La Gola embodies Marcon’s practice, which centers the investigation of cinematic languages in a process that combines theoretical and structural approaches to filmmaking with the sentimental attitudes of popular and entertaining movie genres. The 2024 film has an original score by Italian composer Federico Chiari, a long-time collaborator of Marcon’s.
