Look at you, black sheep!
The film is made out of insults the author has gotten through life in the situations of scapegoating. Insults include also mental illness referring and gender-based body shaming. Should raise awareness on this kind of abuse, even including insults that are very discriminatory towards people of different gender identity and mental health issues. The author herself is not part of those minority groups but finds disturbing the usage of those words as an insult.
The film is silent. The insults are presented via text on the screen. Via live coding web-based browser the video signal is glitched by audio input in some parts of the film (later the audio is removed). Those parts of the film are representing emotional abuse and its effects on people's self-image, self-esteem, and mental health. The film was purposively left without sound because we don't see sometimes violence that is done to some people. That was done in privacy, sometimes even in a different manner of speaking. Thus they are invisible and unheard. The cruelty is sometimes not so loud.
The other still images refer to times when the strength is gained again and when it's time to speak up about it. The author is on the photos on which the text with the insults are overlapping in glitched part of the movies as well at the begging and the end of it. The author is looking directly at the audience looking for answers or a reaction.
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Milica DenkovicDirectorAstronaut/2x2m, The Gap in the Time of the Pandemic, Unspoken, Schrodinger cat is not dead
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Milica DenkovicWriterAstronaut/2x2m, The Gap in the Time of the Pandemic, Unspoken, Schrodinger cat is not dead
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Milica DenkovicVisual ArtistAstronaut/2x2m, The Gap in the Time of the Pandemic, Unspoken, Schrodinger cat is not dead
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Milica DenkovicVideo EditingAstronaut/2x2m, The Gap in the Time of the Pandemic, Unspoken, Schrodinger cat is not dead
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Project Type:Experimental, Short, Web / New Media
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Runtime:1 minute 49 seconds
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Completion Date:March 5, 2022
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Production Budget:0 USD
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Country of Origin:Serbia
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Country of Filming:Serbia
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:1.0
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Film Color:Black & White and Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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ALC video art festivalAthens
Greece
May 12, 2022
World premiere
Official selection Museoverse -
OtherMovie Lugano Film FestivalLugano
Switzerland
May 25, 2022
Switzerland Premiere
Official selection Video ArtContest -
Festival del Cinema di CefaluPalermo
Italy
August 1, 2022
Italian Premiere
Official selection Short film -
FemifilmsBarcelona
Spain
September 1, 2022
Spain Premiere
Official selection International feminist shortfilm -
OPEN VISION FILM FESTBelgrade
Serbia
October 5, 2022
Serbian Premiere
Official selection Open theme -
Les Instants VideoMarseille
France
November 9, 2022
French Premiere
Official selection International festival screening -
Black Cat Award International Film FestivalLa Paz
Bolivia, Plurinational State of
November 11, 2022
South America Premiere
Oficial selection All Categories -
Future Vision Festival - A celebration of unusual animation 異色アニメ映画祭Tokyo
Japan
December 17, 2022
Asian Premiere
Official selection Future Vision Festival (他の作品 / Games, Performances, Exhibition Pieces & Other)
Milica Denković
Education: 2011. -2013. MA New Media Arts Academy of Arts Novi Sad
Membership: Art Association of Vojvodina
Residencies:
2019. Letters project, Kultivera, Tranas, Sweden.
2020. Letters project, Kultivera, Tranas Sweden.
2021. Librogrpahics, Kultivera, Tranas, Sweden.
Acquisitions:
2018. Work „Loop“ digital illustration, Ministry of culture and information of the Republic of Serbia
2021. Work from the collection „The shapes of the books “, Eriksbergs museum, Tranås, Sweden
Projects:
2018-2020 ‘LETTERS’, International art project, creative direction and production with Irena Frantal (CRO) , Kultivera, Tranås, Sweden
Lectures:
2021. Guest artist - Presentation of the porject Destination dystopia, subject Graphic design/theme Graphic novel, Year 2 - Undergraduate Academic Studies Scene architecture, technology, and design, Faculty of Technical Science, Novi Sad, Serbia.
2022. Intermedia Hemmingway: Hemmingway experimented on by the artist, introduction + practice class, Kultivera and Holavedsgymnasiet, Tranas, Sweden.
Shortlisted:
2014. Rovinj Photo days, Rovinj, Croatia.
2021. Reset Artist in Residence, Contemporary, Kyustendil, Bulgaria.
Permanent collections:
2022. Video Schrodinger cat is not dead and Look at you, black sheep, Las Cigarreras Cultural Center´s Video Art collection, Alicante (Spain)
Video:
Video poem Astronaut/2x2m
23 official selections
Video poem „The gap in the time of the pandemic“
4 official selections
Video Unspoken
2 official selections
Video Schrodinger's cat is not dead
2 official selections
Video Look at you, black sheep
1 official selection
Solo exhibition:
2012. Solo photo exhibition Urban Exploration Ex-Yu, Youth Centar at Gaza, Karlovac, Croatia
2018. Twisted city, Art Association of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia.
2019. Twisted city 2.0, Cultural Center of Novi Sad, Serbia.
2020. Destination dystopia, European Capital of Culture Novi Sad – Artist. Now!, Castle Eđšeg, Novi Sad, Serbia
2021. The shapes of the books, At the Fringe festival, Eriksbergs museum, Tranas, Sweden.
Group exhibitions:
2006. Project “Love difference ”-Museum of Contemporary Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia
2006. “What do you think about sexuality?”, Jonkopins Lang Museum, Jonkoping, Sweden
2006, Novosadski salon, Otvoreni radnički univerzitet, Novi Sad, Serbia
2008. Group photo exhibition, Festival of independent culture Unconquered town, Karlovac, Croatia
2008. Selection “Made in Serbia 2008”, VIDEOMEDEJA, Novi Sad, Serbia
2009. Group photo exhibition, Festival of independent culture Unconquered town, Karlovac, Croatia
2009. 10 years of One minute, group exhibition, Kunsthalle Kale, Amersfoort, Netherlands.
2010. Group photo exhibition, Museum night, Novi Sad, Serbia
2010. Group photo exhibition, Novi Sad photomarathon, Novi Sad, Serbia
2010. Group photo exhibition, Novi Sad photomarathon, Pečuj, Hungary
2011. E –poetry / 2 in 1,digital collages. small hall of Student Cultural Center, Belgrade, Serbia
2011.Signals of revolt, collective Škart and Cactus Network, REX Centar, Belgrade, Serbia
2012. Group photo exhibition, Festival of independent culture Unconquered town, Karlovac, Croatia
2012.Periscope, photographers night, Community center in China quarter, Novi Sad, Serbia.
2012. Project “Love difference ”, Student Cultural Center Factory, China Quarter, Novi Sad, Serbia
2014. New members of Art Association of Vojvodina, Art Associations of Vojvodina gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia.
2014. Project “Love difference ”, Student Cultural Center Factory, China Quarter, Novi Sad, Serbia
2014. All members of the Art Association of Vojvodina, Rajko Mamuzić gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia.
2016. Urban ruins Gallery Decumanus, Krk, Croatia.
2016. Portal, festival Dev9t, Belgrade, Serbia.
2019. Quest performing the ghost, Emergence festival, Križik D, Prague Quadrennial, Prague, Czech.
2019. Resource utopia, Artget gallery, Belgrade, Serbia.
2019. Collage – creating the worlds, Hochsalzbrug castle, International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
2019. Telling the time – speculation in designing hybrid languages of the time lead by Ted Hunt & organization Metamedij, festival MediaMeditteranea, Pula, Croatia.
2019. Space in contemporary art in Vojvodina, organized by Art Association of Vojvodina, gallery Kazamat, Osijek, Croatia.
2020, IndustriALL, Metamedij, Pula, Croatia
2020. Fu:bar, AKC Medika, and Gallery Siva, Zagreb, Croatia.
2020. Digital exhibition Letters, At the Fringe Festival, Tranas, Sweden
2020. To another view, BVBK Graz and Artist Association of Vojvodina, Suluv gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia
2020. The Man and The Machine, Millepiani gallery, Rome, Italy
2020. All Members of Art Association of Vojvodina, Suluv gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia
2021. Post-industrial, Millepiani gallery, Rome, Italy
2021. Augmented Authencity, DAI SAI, Pula, Croatia.
2021. Augmented Authencity, Xcenter, Nova Gorica, Slovenia.
2021. Art, Architecture and design, Gallery of contemporary art, Pančevo, Serbia.
2021. All Members of Art Association of Vojvodina, Gallery Rajko Mamuzić, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Online presented:
2021. Digital illustrations from collection Twisted town and Twisted town 2.0, Mnemosphere project – Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Open call results: https://www.mnemosphere.polimi.it/
Poetry:
2014. ''Čitanka:poučak o nizovima''', CK13, Novi Sad, Serbia
2022. „Review of the newest Novi Sad poetry“, editor: Branislav Živanović, Prelom Press, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Poetry readings:
Radio Studio B and April meetings in Belgrade
First poetry facebook festival, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Poetry in the house, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Poetarium, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Pilsner Poetry, Tranas, Sweden
Pilsner Poetry, At the Fringe Festival, Tranas, Sweden
Music performance with ad hoc group Unbearable Error, At the Fringe Festival, Tranas, Sweden
Versopolis, the festival of Hope, online edition
Coracle Europe Festival, hybrid edition, Carmarthen, Wales.
Workshops:
Resource utopia, Photography workshop with Andreas Zust and Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Quest performing the ghost, Ephemera, Prague Quadrennial, Prague, Czech.
Collages and making the worlds, Jakob Kolding, International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria.
Telling the time – speculation in designing hybrid languages of the time lead by Ted Hunt & organization Metamedij, festival MediaMeditteranea, Pula, Croatia
Augmented Authencity, Speculative design workshop, Pula, Croatia
Intermedia artist - active in the fields of visual and literary arts on the theme of space and emotions. This movie currently is speaking about mental & physical space and boundaries.