In Our Own Images
Event series
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| 3 EUR / 1,50 EUR |
| Ground Floor, Hall 3 |
Playing with cars, building things, singing, laughing, learning – this is part of everyday life for many children in Berlin. But what about collecting firewood, catching fish or weaving baskets? Children from Cameroon, Papua New Guinea, Venezuela and Peru have learnt how to make films in workshops and portrayed their everyday lives with a professional camera. They show us how food is made, how games are played and how local traditions and craftsmanship are practised in their home towns.
These films can be seen on one weekend per month at the Humboldt Forum – in a children’s cinema experience that provides insights into diverse ways of life. We show three to five short films each month with a thematic focus: crafting and building, environment and nature, making food and building fires.
A host will guide the children through the afternoon. The films are exciting for children aged 6 and over – and their siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents and friends.
We show the films in German dubbing. Some of the films can also be seen in the exhibitions.
The Hosts
Eva Pedroza was born in Buenos Aires and is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist who works at the interface of film and visual arts. She studied in Buenos Aires and Berlin. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in Berlin, including at the HKW / Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Literaturhaus Berlin. In addition to her artistic work, she offers regular guided tours of the Ethnological Museum.
Andrea Magogi Förster was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, then called Zaire, and has lived in Berlin since the age of nine. She has worked as an actress in various theatre and film projects. She also completed a Bachelor’s degree in Regional Studies Asia/Africa with a focus on films and theatre from East Africa and East Asia as well as a Master’s degree in African Studies with a focus on African literatures and cultures.
Aylin Himmetoğlu studied cultural economics and lives in Berlin. She writes and speaks on various platforms about culture, systematic exploitation and oppression. She is also an organiser of community events and a political educator in the field of anti-discriminatory youth work.
These partners have realised the films
DOCUPERU is a non-profit organisation that promotes, distributes and produces documentaries in different formats to support the democratisation of communication and the development of national and international communities. The organisation focuses on human relations and implementation processes to promote participatory and collaborative methodologies aimed at empowering the communities involved in the production of documentary material.
DOCUPERU is committed to a more just, ecologically responsible, democratic and inclusive society in which citizens are actively involved in telling their own story. DOCUPERU is convinced that proactive action and dialogue-based communication enable new forms of relationships between citizens. DOCUPERU strives for equitable representation of all urban and rural communities across the communicative and social spectrum.
The collaboration of DOCUPERU and Humboldt Forum began in 2017. In 2019, we were able to accompany their “Caravan Documental” in northern Peru for a week, during which the films for “In eigener Regie” were made.
Augustine Moukodi is a Cameroonian author, director and producer. She studied film at the Association of Cinema Professionals in Douala and received her degree in management at the High Technology of Information Institute in Douala, Cameroon. After her studies, she worked for six years as executive producer of the well-known children’s cultural programme Game Over Show in Cameroon. As Secretary General of the Cameroonian branch of the World Association of Cultural Actresses, she deals with gender issues within cultural institutions. She is the coordinator of a programme that promotes the cinematic adaptation of literary works within the Central African sub-region. As an independent researcher in the field of colonial history, she co-authored the Cameroonian historical television series Our Wishes, which focused on the signing of the German-Cameroonian treaty and was produced by the Zili Company, of which she has been president since 2017.
Gina Knapp is a filmmaker, researcher and curator for visual anthropology at the Ethnologisches Museum and Museum für Asiatische Kunst. She is responsible for the ethnographic film and photo archive and for transcultural cooperation in the media sector. Her regional focus is on the South Pacific. She was born in Papua New Guinea in 1972 and has been working on various research and film projects since 1997, mainly in the highlands. She completed her doctoral thesis “Culture Change and Exchange” at the Australian National University in Canberra in 2011. Her main theoretical interest is in cultural change and intercultural communication, and her methodological approach is highly collaborative. She has produced numerous films, such as Big Mama Daisy (1997), Opena Gosalo – A Slice of Life (2022) and Voices of Kula (2021).
The freelance filmmaker and screenwriter Martin Maden was born in New Britain, an island belonging to Papua New Guinea. He studied film at the École Varran in Paris and has worked on numerous film productions at home and abroad as a cameraman and sound technician. He is also the author and director of several successful films and has been running film training workshops in the Pacific region, Europe and Brazil since 1986. Maden was the Executive Director of the Environmental Law Centre, a non-governmental organisation in Papua New Guinea, from 2001 to 2004. During this time he supported rural communities affected by industrial exploitation and began developing Forum Process Filmmaking – a method of emancipating isolated communities in Papua New Guinea through the use of film participation. He has successfully implemented some of these elements in his new film Crater Mountain Story.