4 teenagers look back and ahead.
8 and 16
“8 and 16” explores personal utopias. 4 eight year old students tell their favorite dreams and respond as 16 year old to questions about their utopias. In parallel portraits of 2005 and 2013 they are experiencing each with their childish fantasies and with their youthful visions. They look back and forward. What have their current designs, plans, fictions to do with their pipe dreams of the past ? Verena, Philine, Julius and Emily give insight into their reflections and ways of life. What is this at all, “Utopia” ? Do I have a utopia? Is it important to me? Why ? Do we need it?
director: Maja Maria Liebau
genre: short documentary
duration: 18 mins.
format: HD
original title 8 und 16
year 2013
writer & director Maja Maria Liebau
photography Peter Roloff
pedagogical cooperation Christine Boyer
subtitles BABELFISCH TRANSLATIONS
production maxim film
with
Verena Dickhut
Philine Pfannenstiel
Julius Kloss
Emily Schoen
2005 & 2013
special thanks
Schule an der Freiligrathstraße Bremen
Oliver Behnecke
Esther Steinbrecher
Anaïs Marie Perier
funded by
Chamber of Labor Bremen
Transatlantic Program of the Federal Republic of Germany
Magistrate of the City of Giessen
The Prime Minister of Hesse
“8 and 16” is a continuation of the project “Private Utopias – Favorite Dreams” and the film “The nicest I find: everything” Maja Mary Liebau produced in 2005 with 21 children of a Bremen primary school for the Island Congress of the Traveling Summer Republic.
“8 and 16” was on tour with the Traveling Exhibition “Utopia – Revisiting a German State in America” in Germany and the US. More info here: www.utopia-exhibit.net.
Premiere
November 1, 2013
Giessen, Germany
Traveling Exhibition Utopia
Bremen
November 22, 2013
Cultural Church St. Stephens
Giessen
November – December 2013
KiZ
Georg Büchner Years 2012/2013
Bremen
April 2014 – July 2014
Cultural Church St. Stephens
Washington DC
September – October 2015
German-American Heritage Museum
St. Louis, Missouri
November 2014 – April 2015
Missouri History Museum
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