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.
Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog are best pals and the unsung heroes of the African savanna....
A young linguist named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost ...
Cursed to die by the evil fairy Maleficent when she was a baby, Princess Aurora is sent into hiding ...
A little wooden puppet yearns to become a real boy.
Set several years after the first film, Ariel and Prince Eric are happily married with a daughter, M...
Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in...
When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must f...
A young cat named Oliver is left alone in a kitten box, while all the other young cats have new owne...
Fa Mulan gets the surprise of her young life when her love, Captain Li Shang asks for her hand in ma...
A man's repeated attempts to retrieve an apple off a high tree branch all prove fruitless. What doe...
Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop ...
Lady, a golden cocker spaniel, meets up with a mongrel dog who calls himself the Tramp. He is obviou...
Return to the forest and join Bambi as he reunites with his father, The Great Prince, who must now r...
Astonished to find the Beast has a deep-seeded hatred for the Christmas season, Belle endeavors to c...
After going their separate ways, Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, and Fred reunite to investigate ...
When Charlie Brown complains about the overwhelming materialism that he sees amongst everyone during...
Fed up with all the attention going to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck quits Hollywood, teams up with recentl...
An animated retelling set to Prokofiev's suite. Peter is a slight lad, solitary, locked out of the w...
Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia's police force, jumps a...
Isolated bell-ringer Quasimodo wishes to leave Notre Dame tower against the wishes of Judge Claude F...