Ink in Milk

 

Ink in Milk

2018, 12:30 min, HD Video

Ink in Milk was awarded with the EMAF Media Art Award of the German Film Critics (VDFK), 2019 and Special Mentions at 36t International Short Film Festival Hamburg, 2019, and won the Main Award at VIII Kinodot Film Festival, St. Peterburg, Russia, 2020.

A statement of the jury of the EMAF Media Art Award of the German Film Critics: „Ink in Milk“ is an outstanding work. In twelve minutes, Gernot Wieland unfolds a whole life: In his own sketches, metaphor-rich picture sequences, drawings and sculptures, he resurrects the disturbing world of a childhood, tells of the dark in the light, of the illness schizophrenia, which is the creative principle here, splits up experienced realities and reassembles them anew. “ Ink in Milk“ is a narrative whose dramaturgy is convincing from the first to the last minute – and inspires us to find answers to how to escape the Kafkaesque thornbush, the universal hopelessness. Wieland succeeds in making the hidden ruins of the psyche visible without evaluating their madness.

Ink in Milk was shown in 2023 at Argos centre for audiovisual arts, Brussel, Belgium (solo show); and in 2022 at Riddles, Center for Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Ecrani i artit, ART HOUSE, Shkodra, Albania, 2022; and in 2021 at Quartz Studio, Turin, Italy, (solo); Privat – öffentlich, Kallmann-Museum, Ismaningen, Germany; Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn; and in 2020 at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen; Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg;  The Law is a White Dog, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, Ireland; Unter uns, Werkleitz Festival, Hettstedt, Germany; International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands; VIII Kinodot Experimental Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia; Videoart at Midnight, Berlin, Germany; 15th IndieLisboa, Lisbon, Portugal and in 2019 at 36th International Short Film Festival Hamburg, Germany; Gimli Film Festival, Gimli, Canada; European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany; Belmacz, London, UK; and in 2018 at Monitoring , Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany; Shame, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany.