Rocky (1976)

Rocky comprises a single monitor video and fourteen related drawings The video begins with a man McCarthy himself waiting before the camera with his back turned and then turning to face it Wearing shorts and boxing gloves he begins to address the viewer in muttered sounds which mimic the manner in which actor Sylvester Stallone speaks as the character Rocky in the eponymous 1976 film He begins occasionally to hit himself on the head as though to clear his thoughts and to demonstrate his virility but gradually the number and violence of the blows increases It appears as though the Rocky character is having an imaginary fight with another person but as the film develops it turns into a masochistic fight with himself