Video and Performance

Abstract

In school A, the children produced ten videos. They ranged from playful but incoherent excursions around the space of the school through to comedic, carefully edited parodies and, in one case, a quiet and reflective piece about time spent in the place and a deep friendship. All of them placed original footage alongside quotations and appropriation from favorite media, some of it on the sound track, some acted out for the camera. Improvisation and performance in the spaces of the school became hallmarks. Each video was a montage of modes and clips intended for reading by their classmates and families, markers of time spent in the school in different friendship groups or, in a couple of cases, as an isolated person.