Charon

Charon

2013

Animation

Overview

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.

Aladdin
Madagascar
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Winx Club - The Fate of Bloom
The Inspector
The Monster Kid and The Demon's Sword
Scrappy Birthday
Captain of the Forest
The Monster Kid: Invitation to Monster Land
Colonel Heeza Liar, Detective
Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
Football Bugs
Strings
Rectangle & Rectangles
A Bear for Punishment
A Bird in a Guilty Cage
A Corny Concerto