This book is an artist book as well as a monographic retrospective mainly made up of images, drawings, and other behind the scenes material marking 20 years of Diego Marcon’s film and animation practice.

Diego Marcon’s practice primarily focuses on moving image and is centered on the investigation of cinematic archetypes in a process combining theoretical and structural approaches to filmmaking, with the sentimental attitudes of popular movie genres. His works––spanning film, video, and installation––often utilize a looped structure to articulate an emotional display that flirts with the pathetic aspects of popular entertainment and simultaneously draws attention to the media itself. Throughout Marcon’s work, empathy and vulnerability are deployed with intentional ambiguity, such that the instrumental use of their forms and figures constitutes a blurred morality. This ambiguity is viewed by Marcon first and foremost as a political weapon of defiance.