American cartoons are the starting point for Martin Arnold's new work. Sequences of short films form the basis of a process of fragmentation, deconstruction, dismantling and repetition. Arnold uses fun, family entertainment to create films with open-ended possibilities for association. His pieces, such as Hydra (2013), Charon (2013), Nix (2013) and Self Control (2011), feature characters whose anatomy is no longer recognizable as such, but rather resemble puppets, remotely controlled from the outside. Trembling hands, dancing tongues, blinking eyes and snoring mouths move like ghosts against an abyss-like deep black background, in which bodily elements constantly disappear, only to reappear once more.
Martin Arnold
Director
Madagascar
2005
Aladdin
1992
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988
Rubik's Cube
1985
Motu Patlu in the Game of Zones
2020
Cartoon Network: Animated Through the Years
2022
REYNIVELLIR
2023
Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo Haw Haw
2005
Casper's Haunted Christmas
2000
Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar
2023
Romie-0 and Julie-8
1979
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
2022