Von Menchen Gemacht (Made by Humans), A film about the future
Idea, concept and editing: Eva Meyer-Keller & Hanna Sybille Müller

The film material of the following film was taken during the performance project „Building After Catastrophes“ 2009 in Berlin. The children that participated did everything themselves, they filmed, they did the lights, they build the models and they talked about their future. The left screen shows the footage that the children produced live during the performance.

"The popcorn is the trees and the house is a house."
"If you pour petrol over this, it'll burn really well."
"Hm, then you can do the camera."
"So where exactly is it supposed to start burning?"

Eva Meyer-Keller and Sybille Müller pursue an intuitive research in catastrophes together with seven children. They are building models of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, avalanches, and explosions, as well as catastrophes caused by climate change such as floods, droughts, wild fires and tornadoes.

Credits
Idea, concept and editing: Eva Meyer-Keller & Hanna Sybille Müller
sound: Jeff McGrory
with: Gil Hantschke, Emma Hütt, Zebra Kirschning, Leo Pesch, Timon Prechtel, Gideon Renau, Lea Schirbel

thanks to: Lucas Fester, Rhonda Repotente, Sharon Smith, Sophie Watzlawick for their help with the documentation of the performance ‘Building after Catastrophes’ and to Mehdi Toutain Lopez & Bruno Pocheron for their technical advice.

The Performance was supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds in Berlin, and co produced by Theater Hebbel-am-Ufer in Berlin and Stamsund International Arts Festival Norway.
Thanks to the International Summer Festival Kampnagel Hamburg, Performing Arts Festival NATRURA DÈI TEATRI Parma, Symposium ‘Neue Theaterformen mit Kindern und Jugendlichen’ of the Hessischen Theaterakademie, Dirk Notz and Katja Rothe.