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.
An Eskimo boy's fishing excursion is interrupted by a cooky pair: a polar cub and penguin.

The Beetles and The Boogey Bugs have a football game. The Beetles seem outmatched until a brown bott...

A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from h...

When the Queen Bear and her daughter, Princess Canue, visit the Eastern Valley an epic war breaks ou...

In the boorish city of Agrabah, kind-hearted street urchin Aladdin and Princess Jasmine fall in love...

'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the stu...

Little Fox found a bottle of fog in the forest. For his release from the magic vessel, the Fog from ...

Olaf is on a mission to harness the best holiday traditions for Anna, Elsa, and Kristoff.

Asterix and Obelix have been given a tough mission: Transform the chief's lazy nephew Justforkix int...

The circle of life continues for Simba, now fully grown and in his rightful place as the king of Pri...

Isolated bell-ringer Quasimodo wishes to leave Notre Dame tower against the wishes of Judge Claude F...

Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in...

With King Richard off to the Crusades, Prince John and his slithering minion, Sir Hiss, set about ta...

Milo and Kida reunite with their friends to investigate strange occurances around the world that see...

Lady, a golden cocker spaniel, meets up with a mongrel dog who calls himself the Tramp. He is obviou...

Obelix falls for a new arrival in his home village in Gaul, but is heartbroken when her true love ar...

Someone called the Bad Apple seeks to rule Bumblyburg by making Mayor Blueberry, Petunia Rhubarb, an...

Rocky and Bullwinkle have been living off the finances made from the reruns of their cartoon show. B...

Wart is a young boy who aspires to be a knight's squire. On a hunting trip he falls in on Merlin, a ...

Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchfu...