

© Diego Marcon. Courtesy Diego Marcon. Produced by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Lafayette Anticipations, New Museum, The Renaissance Society, The Vega Foundation. Photo: Brigida Brancale
Diego Marcon's Krapfen is set in a bedroom. Around a bed, a kid is tormented by four characters — a pair of gloves, a foulard, a pair of trousers, and a pullover — who insist that the child should eat an apricot jam krapfen.
The work spins around an obsessive and psychotic plot of four voices questioning why the kid, who apparently used to love krapfen, now refuses to eat one. Krapfen is a musical dance film, a choreography between the visible and the invisible, between the kid and the presence of the four characters, made visible only by their movements in relation to the body of the kid.
Constituting an encounter between the Golden Age of American animation, the tradition of avant-spectacle, and the Italian Opera, the film takes the form of a neurotic carousel – a seamless spiral of elements moving around a pivot: the indolent, silent, perhaps even dumb kid without appetite.