Description
Every last Saturday of the month, from 10.30am to 1pm, children between five and twelve years old discover non-commercial kids movies. The films are selected for their quality and originality. In the creative environment of Wiels Centre for Contemporary Art, short films, innovative fictions, animation classics are screened. Parents who wish to attend the screenings are also welcome! After the movie a bilingual workshop (approximately 1 hour) allows children to unwind their imagination around the theme of the film. Participants experiment with different artistic disciplines, while a creative and sensitive approach to Dutch is also stimulated.
This month: A series of sand animations about winter
- For Mathilde, Alla Churikova, D, 2008, no dialogue, 7'
A little girl finds a dying bird. Listening to its heart beating makes her want to play the piano again. An animated film made of beautiful sand drawings.
- The Gift. Jessica Langford, 2005 UK, no dialogue, 9'
The Gift was inspired by a Japanese legend the filmmaker heard from the children at Hiroshima Animation Workshop. A young girl rescues a seal and meets a sea prince in his underwater palace. When she decides to return to her family, the lonely prince gives her a beautiful mysterious shell. Back home, she discovers that she has been away for many years. The house is in ruins and her family gone. In desperation she opens the shell...
- The owl who married a goose, an inuit legend, Caroline Leaf, 1974, CA, no dialogue, 6'
The film is an adaptation of an Inuit legend about an owl who falls in love with a goose, and is overwhelmed by the events that follow. Clearly, to the Inuit, the foolish owl has broken an important rule of the North: don't try to be something other than what you are. Survival depends upon following closely the rules of nature. The story is told with sand animation. Old Inuit women who remember mimicking animal sounds to help with the hunting have made the soundtrack of voices and effects.
- Le Silence sous l'écorce, Joanna Lurie, F, 2010, no dialogue, 11′
Awakened during the night by a violent incident, the soul of a tree leaves its damaged bark and is seduced by the beauty of the snow
- Rezign, David Myriam, UK, 2010, 6'34
The desert stretches, all life seems to have disappeared.
Workshop: Discover this orginal technique of sand animation and create your own sand drawings!