Fantasies of the future by a 2nd grade class.
What I like the most is… everything
In German language
Wishful Dreaming: Fantasies of the future by a 2nd grade class
Utopian thoughts and imaginations always inhabit the space between possible and impossible – a ‚room’ to which children naturally have private access. Over several weeks, 21 seven- and eight-year-olds sketched, wrote, and painted their very own ‚utopian dreams’ and then described them for our camera…
director: Maja Maria Liebau
genre: documentary
duration: 17 min.
format: HDV
original title Am schönsten find‘ ich alles
year 2005
writer & director Maja Maria Liebau
photography Peter Roloff
montage Manfred Hielscher
cast 21 children of the second grade class 2a Schule an der Freiligrathstraße Bremen (Germany):
Doreen, Marcel, Sevval, Eun-jin, Max, Joel, Celina, Verena, Victor, Ayleen, Moritz, Anna-Laure, Nicolas, Max, Kristin, Leon, Philine, Hannah, Emily, Julius, Victoria
pedagogical collaboration
Christine Boyer and Sigrid Schwerte, teachers
Silvia Heidmann-Abbee, headmaster
production maxim film
funded by
Kulturinvestitionsfonds Bremen
Der Senator für Kultur der Freien Hansestadt Bremen
Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Soziokultur in Niedersachsen e.V.
In-depth documentation (in German)
Continuation of this project with the short film “8 and 16” in 2013. In English and German.
Premiere
August 19, 2005
Weser River island Harriersand
„Island’s Congress – A Trip to Utopia“
Bremen, Germany
September 2005
Showing at the congress and exhibition „Education and
New Media“ of the international network-organisation
Global Cities Dialogue
Theatrical Premiere
June 15, 2006
Bremen – Schauburg
in collaboration with Filmbüro Bremen e.V.
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