Ark Excerpt

2:40 min. excerpt of 15 min. piece (2004). A girl is walking in the woods and finds a mysterious box. She places a seed inside the box and hides it. Time passes, and children playing in the woods, by a lake and at the ocean, come upon the same box. In each of four scenes, the box holds more and more strange small beings, little people who need the children so that they can gain new life. Play collaboration with eight children in Brooklyn, NY. Screened at the 39th Annual BAC Film Festival, 2005 and the 2007 Kids First! Film Festival. Subject of KBE's Ed.M. qualitative research study on children's media. Directed by Kristin and Sean Eno.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• play
• children's play
• imaginative play
• preschool
• elementary
• early childhood
• outdoors
• nature
• outdoor play
• Vygotsky
• problem solving
• mystery
• constructivist
• documentation
• children's videos
• unscripted