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»Which Direction?« That is the title of the animation workshop which was initiated by the City Library of Frankfurt am Main for young adults whose family background and experience includes flight or migration. The project’s content, as developed by its coordinator, Tanja Schmidt, was focussed from the beginning around teenagers who fled their home countries on their own, without adult family members.
To start off the five-day animation workshop, the library pedagogue chose the graphic novel by Marc-Antoine Mathieu, called »The Direction«.(Orig. French, »Le sens«, 2014). After discussing the book together, the youth were asked to tell their own stories and transform them into short animated audio-visual sequences. Their work was planned to be process-oriented and at beginner’s level.
In the workshop’s first morning session at the central library there were 15 young people from Afghanistan, Eritrea, and Pakistan, between 15 and 17 years of age. Although not mandatory, all of them told the story of their flight in their animation clips.
Over the next four days the teens worked on their clips in the morning at the library, while in the afternoon the audio and visual elements were developed on green screen backgrounds at the Youth Center on Heideplatz. Tablets and tripods were employed at the library to create an animation studio in miniature.
To avoid revealing the identity of the young filmmakers– for security and data protection reasons – it was necessary to be especially creative. Their figures needed to be disguised on the green screen.