Bird in Italian is Uccello

Bird in Italian is Uccello

2021, 14:26 min, HD Video

In 2022 Bird in Italian is Uccello received the German Short Film Award, the most important and highly endowed award for short films in Germany, and an award for Best Film at Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris.

A statement of the jury of the German Short Film Award: „The outside is like a room I cannot enter.“ Gernot Wieland, who takes a look at his own childhood and notes that no matter how porous the separating membrane appears, how permeable the glass of the window pane makes the landscape behind it appear, it remains at a distance. No bridge leads from the inside to the outside. The topology of the invisible spaces into which we are born is at once unconscious and rigid. The compulsion to conformity, which is cast off like a shadow and decides on life plans, views and affiliations, is oppressive. “Bird in Italian is Uccello” is a meandering, poetic search for traces of sovereignty in the socio-psychological structures that define societies.  „I look at the reflections of myself in the glass of the car window. If my language would exist, I would say: absence – this absence is what speaks to me.

Bird in Italian is Uccello was shown in 2023 at Argos centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels, Belgium; 15th International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Diagonale ´23, Graz, Austria; Glued and Screwed by wysiwyg, Filmhuis Den Haag, The Netherlands; 36th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany; 29. Internationale Kurzfilmwoche, Regensburg, Germany; and in 2022 at BIENALSUR, 3rd Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de América del Sur, Buenos Aires, Argentina; EMAF – European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany; Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, France; 38th Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany.