yinan wang
王一男
甜腻腻 Thick & Sweet
Digital video, Color, Stereo
Total run time: 14:54
2026
The uprooted, the American dream, the thick-and-sweet sauce, and an empty dining hall—too much for any one person to face and survive. It is easier to demolish a closed restaurant. Inspired by Robert Nelson’s Oh Dem Watermelons and its meditation on race and food, this video collage combines cutouts, reenactments, found footage, and fragments of earlier films to reconstruct personal and collective memory while reflecting on the immigrant experience through the Americanization of food.
Awards:
Special Jury Mention, Athens International Film + Video Festival
Cream City Cinema Jury Award, Milwaukee Film Festival
Audience Award, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
Screenings:
2026 Milwaukee Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI
2026 Experiments in Cinema v21.5, Albuquerque, NM
2026 Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH
2026 Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, WI
2026 Chinese Film Festival Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2026 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI
2026 Moviate Underground Film Festival, Harrisburg, PA
2026 New Year / New Work Film Festival — The Film-Makers' Cooperative, New York, NY