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| Kinder machen Kunst mit Medien |
| The Absent Father | Children Make Animation Films von Sigrid Lemm |
| The mother, the small boy, the ants, and the children in the swimming pool, especially the pool attendant are really original and good animation film characters. The children know how to effectively create the characters. But one figure is missing. |
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| The work on the film had already proceeded
quite far, and there was no figure for the father. I spoke with the
children about it. Together we considered how the father might look.
The children began with designing him, but weren’t successful.
The class was also not satisfied with the results. What could be the reason behind this? The figure of the father (seen as a drawing) was obviously not that interesting. It was fun for the children to create little Rudi, who is totally at the mercy of his overpowering father. For a long time though, the father himself was only present as a demanding, coercive, scolding, bodiless voice from the off. Some of the children were growing up without a father; perhaps one could bring this fact into the film? I had the idea to waive the image of the father. In order to give the huge voice an image, I suggested drawing an automobile instead of a human figure. “How would this man’s car look?”, I asked. The above-pictured truck is what emerged: glaring, loud and naturally much larger than all the other automobiles. The father now, by all means, performs in the film physically, but not as a human, rather in the form of his totally tricked up, show-off auto (or as inhuman, when one wants to look at it that way). The auto carelessly, races around, and honks and breaks loudly. The father curses and swears. |
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