1st and 2nd grades at Kindermanngasse Primary School (AT) // Alina Begic, Bianca Aionitoaie, Shakiba Rezai, Sude Ekim, Sinan Federmair, Bernhard Scheffer Nikolaus Lohberger, Lennard Loy, Nils Gratzl
u19 winner: u10 Prize
Max in Gefahr is an animated film, produced by students of VS Kindermanngasse in cooperation with MUKATO.
With the children’s book entitled Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak as their point of departure, pupils at Kindermanngasse Elementary School grappled with the subjects of being wild, transcending boundaries, the purpose of rules, the courage to stand up for ones beliefs, parental love and gender sensitivity. The youngsters selected scenes from the book’s narrative, recreated them and prepared a theatrical performance. With their cultural advisor, they discussed whether everything you see in films is always true. Then, in small groups, they made animated films. They experimented with analogue techniques to create moving pictures and with material for animation and cut-outs, built figures out of modeling clay for object animation, and experienced how movement is created on film. The pupils developed scenes from the book and produced them as an animated film. They used cameras, lamps and recording software to create a short film with a soundtrack featuring sounds produced by the youngsters themselves. At the end of the project, the play and the film were presented. The film Max in Gefahr (en: Max in Danger) is a product of this project.
Plot:
Max sails alone across the sea, unafraid of sharks, huge ships and screeching birds. He sails to an island inhabited by wild creatures. They’re very wild, shouting and rolling their eyes. They launch a big ship into the sea and it sinks. Max’s cruise with his small sailboat lasts a long, long time. Algae and other marine plants are already growing out of the sunken ship. Unwavering, Max sails on until he returns to the island of the wild creatures. They bellow their terrible roars and show their fearsome fangs when they see Max. But Max isn’t afraid of them. He goes ashore, and the wild creatures are amazed at how he made it in such a tiny boat. He looks them straight in the eyes without blinking even once. Suddenly, a shark comes and pulls Max and his boat back out to sea. Max and his boat go under. But the wild creatures rescue him and ask him to be their king.
First and second grades at Kindermanngasse Elementary School set up a sort of film studio for a week in four rooms. There, they worked in small groups together with experts to create various animated films. The film Max in Gefahr was created by the group that worked with Karoline Riha: Alina Begic, Bianca Aionitoaie, Shakiba Rezai, Sude Ekim, Sinan Federmair, Bernhard Scheffer, Nikolaus Lohberger, Lennard Loy, Nils Gratzl.
Credits
Kindermanngasse Elementary School
Karoline Riha, MUKATO (workshop director)
More Info on VS Kindermanngasse can be found here.
credits: 1st and 2nd grades at Kindermanngasse Primary School
