{"uid":"PNeuqLD1ARdbeCJF","type":"artist","tags":["video","videoinstallation"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"Thievery and Songs","summary":"In the film \u2018Thievery and Songs\u2019 the filmmaker narrates, in his own voice, a dream he has\nof the Town Musicians of Bremen. The film itself comes across as a dream or hallucination.\nLike much of his work, this film is based on research, memory and narration and brings\ntogether this fairy tale with childhood recollections, combined with animal characters visiting\ntheir psychotherapists and memories of his own education and body art. \nThis collage of moving images is composed of Super 8 film, video, watercolours, drawings, claymation and his father\u00b4s photographies. Each frame carries the distinctive atmosphere of its medium. The work narrates different stories, from Wieland\u2019s transformation into a snail, which by the turns of narrative, bears a relationship to landscapes, a therapeutic session, the notion of memory and hierarchy. \nThis latest work presents a critique of hierarchical structures and the ghosts of WW2. \nThe film also delves into the true story of a Jewish-Austrian dancer who had to escape Austria for Bombay in1938. Filmed inside government buildings it sets a \u2018quote\u2019 for Austria\u2019s past, since there were so many people in these buildings who were responsible, who could decide over life and death.\u2019\nAltogether in this film, fables, memory, histories and reflections on contemporary life\ncollapse into a visual philosophy of being, carrying a tragicomic spirit that mingles irony and\nabsurdity with a gripping, poetic sobriety.","space":"Big screen, black box if possible.","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":"thievery","video_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/188433822","audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"names":"Gernot","surname":"Wieland","email":"gewieland@gmail.com","dni_type":"DNI","dni":"1638851","address":"Cantianstrasse 17","city":"Berlin","nacionality":"Austrian","country_id":"61","birthdate":"1968-08-23T23:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1968-08-23T23:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+49 176 21644727","web":"http:\/\/gernotwieland.com\/"}