Fritz
Diego Marcon, 2024, UK, DE, IT, digital, 4'
Inside a shed illuminated by an autumn dawn, a young boy hanging from a noose, is yodeling. Traditionally employed in the Central Alps to call the cattle back to the barns or to communicate with distant villages, Fritz’s jodel is instead a muffled call and a lugubrious requiem, accompanied by other voices coming back from nearby valleys and mountains. Composed by long-term collaborator Federico Chiari, the jodel was performed by Coro Genzianella, an all-male Italian folk choir founded in 1961 in a small mountain village in the Trentino-Alto Adige region.
