Image: Playing Sikoko Wasim (The Hoop Killing Game) from Baliem Valley, 1961 by Robert Gardner
This summer DER’s Watch from Home returns with an exciting new program: Children’s Stories: Kids at Work & Play Around the World.
We invite you to explore a series of short films and clips that celebrate the diversity of children’s experiences worldwide. The program features captivating stories for and about children from around the world as well as several enchanting short animated films to delight and inform young audiences, and evoke the child within all of us. In this collection, you can listen to a lullaby from the South Pacific, meet a Filipino yo-yo master from Los Angeles, encounter unlikely friends in Argentina, and more. We hope you will enjoy these heartfelt stories and perspectives of children from different corners of the world.
Join us on this unique cinematic journey! All films are available until September 1st.
FILM PROGRAM:
At the Winter Sea Ice Camp, Part 3 (Excerpt)
from the Netsilik series
Quentin Brown, 1967
Arrow Game
from the Yanomamö Series: Remastered, Vol. I
Timothy Asch, Napoleon Chagnon, 1974
Hand Play
from the John Bishop Short Films Collection
John Bishop, 1975
Yoyo Man
from the John Bishop Short Films Collection
John Bishop, 1978
Argentinian Lesson (Excerpt)
Wojciech Staroń, 2011
Sandbank
from Vermont Kids
John Marshall, Roger Hart, 1975
The Toad Visits His In-Laws
from Jean Michel Kibushi: Palabres Animées du Griot
8 min, 1991
Sailing a Sinking Sea (Excerpt)
Olivia Wyatt, 2015
Lion Game
from the !Kung Series
John Marshall, 1970
Screening Room: Caroline Leaf & Mary Beams
from the Screening Room collection: Animation series
Robert Gardner, 1975
Playing Sikoko Wasim (The Hoop Killing Game)
from Baliem Valley, 1961
Robert Gardner, 1961/2025
Arnold Golay, Toy-Maker
from the Wood Crafts series
Jacqueline Veuve, 1992
Colours of the Alphabet (Excerpt)
Alastair Cole, 2016
J.C. Abbey, Ghana’s Puppeteer (Excerpt)
from the Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra series
Steven Feld, 2016
Everyday Life of Roma Children from Block 71 (Excerpt)
Ivana Todorovic, 2006
Flatland
Eric Martin, 1965
We Are Not Beggars
Wen-jie Qin, 1997
Popol Vuh
Ana María Pavez, 2006
Hoy Fok and the Island School (Excerpt)
from Faces of Change collection: China Coast series
George Chang, Richard Chen, Norman Miller, 1974
Naim and Jabar (Excerpt)
from Faces of Change collection: Afghanistan series
Louis Dupree, Nancy Dupree, Herb Di Gioia, David Hancock, Josephine Powell, 1974
The Stitches Speak (Tanko Bole Chhe)
Nina Sabnani, 2009
