Relax! This Is Not a History Lesson Bringing the Past Alive Without Putting Audiences to Sleep. Finding more inventive and subversive ways to use archives and when to avoid using them

Stories based on history can be a visual sleeping pill, which is what happens when we use archives as a shortcut or filler. But it doesn’t have to be this way! In this session we will discuss ways in which technology and animation can rescue us from the mindless use of archival footage. Social media and historical re-enactments may seem like two things that do not belong together. But there are ways for public broadcasters to pull this off - we’ll hear from people who have done it. Sometimes there are no pictures to help us bring someone’s backstory to life. So we have to invent it. We’ll discuss strategies to do this with credibility and how it can humanize polarizing debate over issues like refugee seekers and drug addiction.

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Alone

duration 52 minutes 15 seconds

Alone

Alone

From UPF

Every year in Canada, over 400 children arrive aloneat the border to seek asylum. Fearing for their lives,Afshin, Alain and Patricia left their home countrieswithout…
I Am Sophie Scholl

duration 4 hours 6 minutes

I Am Sophie Scholl

I Am Sophie Scholl

From UPF

On the occasion of Sophie Scholl’s 100th birthday(9 May), the Instagram project by SWR and BR bringsthe resistance fighter out of the history books and intothe…
I Will Return

duration 24 minutes 58 seconds

I Will Return

I Will Return

From UPF

Tadeo’s mind is a maze. Tadeo was released from aseven-month prison sentence in Mexico City’s ReclusorioSur just hours before the call for the filming of…
The Age of Beasts

duration 47 minutes 56 seconds

The Age of Beasts

The Age of Beasts

From UPF

A woman murdered a neighbour 21 years after he rapedher when she was nine years old and said 'I didn’t killa human being, I killed a beast.' She looks…

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