Très ☹ Mall is a political cartoon following four friends living in an abandoned mall featuring writers on topics in philosophy, capitalism and violence.
Written, Directed & Animated by Derek G. Larson
Screening Info: contact@dereklarson.net
Derek G. Larson is an artist and animator who previously worked as an editor at PBS. His series, "Très Mall," is an animated documentary featuring discussions on art and philosophy with recent guests Noam Chomsky, David Joselit, Carla Gannis, McKenzie Wark, and Priyamvada Gopal. "Très Mall" has been screened at venues including the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, Tranen, Times Square in New York City, MoCA Atlanta, and the Yale School of Architecture.
SCREENINGS
2023
Très Mall, Award Winner, Tokyo Film Awards, Tokyo
Très Mall, Award Winner, Cannes World Film Festival, Cannes, French Riviera
Très Mall, Award Winner, Gold Award Short Documentary, Official Selection Milan Gold Awards, Milan Italy
Très Mall, Semi-Finalist, Sweden Film Awards, Stockholm
Très Mall, Official Selection Berlin Lift-Off Film Festival, Berlin Germany
Très Mall, Semi-Finalist, AniMate Australia Animation Film Festival, Newtown, NSW
Soundxploit.sh: Très Mall, Gonima, Parts Project and Rony, Casa Del Popolo La Sotterenea, Thursday Feb 9th, 2023, Montreal CA
2022
La Cueva, Emiliano Rocha & Annalisa D. Quagliata, Mexico City MX
Westobou Commission, Morris Museum, Augusta GA **
Jiffy Louvre II: Leave Worry Behind (Again), Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta GA
Jiffy Louvre II: Leave Worry Behind (Again), Georgia State University, Atlanta GA
Jiffy Louvre II: Leave Worry Behind (Again), University of Georgia, Athens GA
Freyberger Gallery, Penn State Berks
2021
If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now, Wassaic Project NY
EP.5 The Violence Entrepreneurs, Très Mall on Dis
Film @ Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
Lessons Passed, Bloomsburg University PA
2020
What Do People Do All Day?, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Garden Pleasure, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven CT
The Eye Can See Things, Polignano a Mare Italy
What Do People Do All Day?, Tranen, Copenhagen
2019
Boiler Room 4:3 Club x DIS Cinema, The 1896, Brooklyn NY
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta GA
Lafayette Anticipations x KALEIDOSCOPE Manifesto, Paris FR
Short Shorts, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta GA
Jepson Center Telfair Museum, Savannah GA
MIT Museum, Cambridge MA
CCTV Cambridge Community Television, Cambridge MA