Playground
3RD YEAR
Can you make electronic music at a playground? On a sunny Sunday, a mother and her son are producing a handmade music handbook on the fly, assembling images into collections of bizarre rhythms. Short experimental film on the hidden artistic potential and the interesting aspects that lie in even the most ordinary of things.
Walter Duncan, Marie-Pierre Bonniol (mother of Walter)
The film was created by Walter Duncan and Marie-Pierre Bonniol - an intergenerational creative duo living in Berlin.
Walter is a 10-year-old schoolboy interested in animation. Marie-Pierre, his mother, is a visual artist. Their collaboration started during the first lockdown, spring 2020, at their home, soon followed by a broadcast in a Fluxus programme. Together they make experimental video films, playing with form, light, editing and music, which they make themselves, in temporal and formal intensities. Their creative collaboration has already been presented by numerous festivals in Europe and the United States (CineYouth / Chicago International Film Festival, Children Film Festival Seattle). Their work has also been presented by Café OTO, Anthology Film Archives and Stadtmuseum Berlin. Their films are distributed by Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Paris) and Film-Maker's Cooperative (New York). They are currently developing a 52-minute experimental film about video games, images and media, aimed at children.
Creators' note:
For each of our productions, we always put ourselves in a process, a creative moment together, where our ideas are knotted together, complement and bounce back to each other. What happens there is concentrated, and most often quickly edited. We create together and it's joyful. This circulation between our two views and the energy that is generated during our collaborations is what we want to transmit through our films. But also a certain manifesto for integrative practices, articulated as closely as possible with life, without hierarchy between the ages, for the absolute creative space that can be found within.
