The Warm Place

The Warm Place (El Lugar Tibio) is an experimental video by Argentine artist Marcello Mercado. Made from fragments of video, drawings, photographs, sound, text, hand-painted slides, and digital image processing, the piece explores the instability of the body under conditions of historical violence, technological mediation, and failed memory.

Rather than following a linear narrative, the video operates as a process of reconstruction through visual debris and interrupted signals. Images continuously decompose and reorganize, creating unstable relationships between anatomy, machinery, language, and history. The body is not presented as a fixed identity but as a fragmented technological field subject to distortion, repetition, and transformation.

The work was screened internationally, including at Videobrasil and the World Wide Video Festival in 1998. There, it received critical attention for its dense audiovisual structure and obsessive image logic.

Running time: 36 minutes

Format: Betacam SP PAL

Country: Argentina

Language: Spanish with English subtitles

Paintings: Germán Wendel
Music: Rei Rolle, Enrique Deschutter,Luis Lewin, Marcello Mercado
Chorus: Formación Sonora I, Escuela de Teatro, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba,Argentina, Triversion Ensemble Group
Hand Painted Slides: Eduardo Las Heras
Metalic Textures: Instituto del Diseño,Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Católica de Córdoba, Argentina
Typography: Adrián Manavella
Sound Postproduction: Marcos Carreño
Camera: Marcello Mercado
Off-line Editor: Pablo Romano
Archive Footage: Carram Films, Miravalles Films, Savanco Films, Taier Films
Actors: Mónica ferrando, gerardo Gudiño, Eduardo Las Heras, Agustín Villafañe
Edition: Antonio Pita and Marcello Mercado
Production: Mario Savanco and Marcello Mercado
Animation-Direction: Marcello Mercado