Twelve young people aged between 17 and 24 worked with refugees in The Hague to create their own exhibition on freedom. They watched fragments of interviews with people who have experienced unfreedom and talked to each other about the meaning of freedom. They creatively translated their ideas into photos, animations and videos.
Look at a picture and guess what its creator means by it.
Click on the arrow to the right and see if your guess is correct.
Part of the group made short animation films with the assignment; make a stop-motion film based on your thoughts. Watch the results below.
The youngsters made short videos using (free) video editor Open Shot. Assignment was:
A. Choose one or more of eight quotes from interviews with:
B. Make a short film based on your own footage.
With this exhibition, we hope to inspire teachers, project and education staff as well as all those interested in oral history to get started themselves and reuse the source material in a creative and appropriate way. Oral history can be an excellent way to shed new light on various topics or to be used as a trigger for conversation/discussion on pressing and current issues in society. A manual and step-by-step plan will be published shortly on our Education page.
On 28 October, the exhibition was festively opened by host and community builder Deborah Cameron.
The exhibition is part of the “Freedom as a theme” project and has been made possible by Knooppunt Oral History “Sprekende geschiedenis”, internship house Schilderswijk, Habesha Spirit, Ruben van Gogh (poet and teacher of smartphone art), Farah Rahman (multidisciplinary artist and project assistant Filmhub Zuid-Holland) and Sound and Vision The Hague.
Thanks to: