Marcello Mercado
1996 Fellow–Argentina
Cordoba, Argentina
The Warm Place
An experimental film/video using animals and marionettes in a visual allegory of Marx's dialectic postulates.
Awards:
First Prize, Videobrasil
Festivals:
New York Video Festival/Videobrasil/Video et Multimedia International Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France/World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam/Pacific Film Archives
Screenings:
Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA
Web Sites:
Selected Works
Video
Film
The Warm Place (1998)
The Silence (1995)
Edge of Rain (1995)
Restos de madre (Remains of My Mother) (1995)
El Vacío (Emptiness) (1994)
La region del tormento (Torment Zone) (1992)
Accomplishments
Festivals: Hong Kong International Film Festival, 1995; International Film and Video Festival, London, 1994; Videonale, Bonn, Germany, 1994; International Film Festival, San Francisco, 1993; Segundo Festival Franco Latinoamericano de Video/Arte, Buenos Aires, 1993; and Festival Latinoamericano, Italy, 1992

Awards: First Prize, Latinoamerican Film Festival of Rosario, Argentina, 1994 and 1995; Prix Special a la Creation, Festival International de Lorquin, France, 1995; Grand Prize, Mondial de la Video Brussels, Belgium, 1994; and Second Prize, VideoFest, Berlin, Germany, 1994
Education
Film and Television, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
Psychology, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina
News
July 2006
Marcello Mercado’s recent short video Regulating the Watch screened at the New York Video Festival in July. Argentina
June - July 2004
Marcello Mercado’s Das Kapital v.07, a dizzying journey from economic digital dissolution to the cold reality of death, has been screening internationally this summer, including the New York Video Festival, Sydney Film Festival and the Emoção Art.ficial 2.0 in Brazil.  Godel 1-2-3, which uses 14 traffic cameras to test Godel’s theories, screened at the Toronto Images Festival in April.  www.khm.de/~marcello/  Argentina