Take the Green Line: Science Films for A Young Audience
Energy Saving (Stromsparen)
Director: Kyne Uhlig, Color, 2 minutes, Germany, 2009, English
Age Guideline: Under 6
Imagination is sometimes the best source for unconventional solutions, especially when it comes to climate protection. What ideas do children have on the subject of energy saving? In this short film children were asked to express their ideas and these were then brought onto the screen with stop-motion animation.
Now You Know: Episode 13 – Recycling (Jetzt weißt du es! – Folge 13: Recycling)
Director: Ben Mazzotta, Color, 7 Minutes, Canada, 2014, English
Age Guideline: 5 – 8
Howie, a curious 5-year old boy, and his best friend, little monkey Baboo, ask A LOT of questions: How do fish breathe underwater?, What’s a rainbow?, How does an astronaut float in Space?, or Where does the water go when you flush the toilet?
This episode asks the question: Where does Recycling go after it’s picked up? Howie throws his cardboard robot in the recycling bin and wonders, “What happens to recycling after it’s picked up?” They visit engineer Derek at the city recycling plant and are shown how recycling is separated on conveyor belts and made into new products.
Password Green: Trade Batteries for Seeds – Citlalli (Contraseña Verde: Tausche Batterien gegen Samen – Citlalli)
Director: Goethe-Institut, Color, 3 minutes, Mexico 2013, Spanish with English subtitles
Age Guideline: 9-11
Citlalli is 12 years old and very concerned about the environment. She wants to do something positive for her home town. That’s why she initiates the campaign “Trade Batteries for Seeds” and invites neighbors to trade in their used batteries for bags of various plant seeds.
Show with the Mouse – Synthetic Materials from Grass (Sendung mit der Maus – Kunststoff aus Gras)
Director: Matthias Wegmann, Color, 7 minutes, Germany, 2015, German with English voiceover
Age Guideline: 9-11
Whether it’s lunch boxes, water bottles or bags – it’s not easy to think of a world without plastic. This is bad for the environment because plastic is made from petroleum. But plastic can be made even from blades of grass. The team from the Sendung mit der Maus shows an exciting invention: Green grass becomes “green plastic” – and is turned into a coat hanger.
nine-and-a-half: Man or Machine – Can Robots Soon Do More Than Us? (neuneinhalb: Mensch oder Maschine – Können Roboter bald mehr als wir?)
Director: Stefan Brand, Color, 10 minutes, Germany, 2015, German with English voiceover
Age Guideline: 9-11
How similar are the abilities of the robots to human skills? To find an answer to that question, Johannes not only looks into a robot’s head but also dares a challenge: man against machine. He dares the robot Flobi to a matching game – which happens to be the robots best skill. He also meets Momaro, who has to collect dust in a cup on an artificial moon surface. How advanced the robot techniques are will be shown in this film.
What is Your Personal CO2 Balance? (Wie viel CO2 verursachst Du?)
Director: Andreas Neuhaus, Color, 2 minutes, Germany 2012, English
Age Guideline: 12-16
The series Global Ideas seeks to break down complex issues regarding climate change. That's why the Deutsche Welle began a series of information films to answer some fundamental questions. In this episode the question of how much CO2 an individual person produces on average is tackled. Everything that we eat, that we do and that we buy has an own CO2 imprint and together they determine our carbon footprint. Who uses especially much and who very little is something discovered in this short film.
In cooperation with the Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance
Special thanks go to Andreas Klempin, Goethe-Institut Bangkok and Klara Räthel, without whose work this series would not have been possible.
solarise: a sea of all colors is Luftwerk’s site-specific response to the Garfield Park Conservatory’s historic structure and natural collection.
The film program is a cooperation with the Science Film Festival, an initiative by the Goethe-Institut in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa that reaches over 750,000 visitors in 16 countries annually.
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