Grey Milk & Lost Kin

d. Wilma Stone (UK, 2025) 82m

In Grey Milk & Lost Kin, artist filmmaker Wilma Stone gathers what has been discarded—damaged film, fragmented images, and forgotten archival voices, with her own contemporary shot footage and field recordings—and transforms them into a polyphonic dreamscape.

Crafting an imaginary world of her hidden ancestral lineage—from the Gypsy/Traveller communities of Scotland—she restitches the torn edges of a history that colonial legacies have sought to unmake. Inscribed by and in dialogue with historical and psychic traumas, its decay speaks of the slow violence of forgetting, mirroring the way memory corrodes under the weight of neglect.

Grey Milk & Lost Kin is an evocative act of reclamation, a bearing witness to what has been lost and what still endures and calls out to us to be made real, to be remembered, and to be named.

Artist Q&A

Join us for an artist Q&A with Wilma Stone on Saturday 8 November from 11am-12pm.

SMHAF 2025: Comfort & Disturb

Our theme, Comfort & Disturb, references the famous Cesar A Cruz quote that “art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable”. It is a simple expression of the power of art both to challenge and to console, often having a transformative effect on people and societies. The theme was collectively chosen by SMHAF’s team of regional coordinators, along with the arts team from the Mental Health Foundation. Across Scotland, hundreds of programme events have been developed in response to this powerful theme.