Workshop Kortfilm Filem'on Festival

My first network attempts in my new hometown Brussels led to working for a children's film festival called Filem'on.
Together with Nele Bauwens we gave a workshop in life-action short film to a group of 10 teenagers.
Within one morning we introduced the medium film, the children created a story and the set, where the children themselves did the acting and the camera work. In the afternoon Nele and I created the edit with a soundtrack (which was partly sung by the children). The equipment was organized by Filem'on.
http://www.filemon.be/

2nd Baby Card - Clay

Recently two friends of mine became parents and I made this congratulations card for them!

Screening of animation at HAFF2009 and Cinestud2010

While I was in Tanzania, my animation 'C'est le ton qui fait la musique' was shown at the Holland Animation Film Festival in Utrecht, NL, in the student competition.
It was screened again in a sideprogram of the Klik! Festival at Cinestud in Amsterdam. This time I could enjoy seeing my animation in the cinema.

C'est le ton qui fait la musique / It's not what you say, it's how you say it from Sandra Verkaart on Vimeo.

Illustration workshop at the primary school 'de Kring'

Following the national week of the children-book, I was asked to give an illustration workshop to five classes at 'de Kring', a primary school for special education (for children with speaking or hearing disorders and autism).
I made the children think of different genres in books and made them choose colors belonging to the emotions you experience reading such a book. After the children picked dark colors for the negative stories and bright colors for the positive stories, they made an illustration themselves, using either one of those chosen colors.

Curating a Symposium for Klik! Animation Festival Amsterdam

Also taking place during my MA, was the curating of a Symposium for Klik!. Tiddo Muda and Marlyn Spaaij once again being my colleagues, since we where asked to curate the Symposium after the program director of the festival (Yvonne van Ulden) had read our MA essays.
The theme of the Klik! festival was science, and besides the screening of animated shorts on this theme, the Symposium brought together animators and scientists to discuss the uses, strengths and weaknesses of animation on behalf of scientific illumination and education.
We have found an interesting group of scholars, scientists and animators, whose lectures, animation screenings and discussions made the Symposium what we hoped it to be.
Along this Symposium Tiddo Muda, Marlyn Spaaij and I wrote a publication for the Symposium, supported by the HKU, edited by Florian Duijsens.

Truly Fantastic, research and animation for my MA

Werkelijk Fantastisch : Truly Fantastic
For my MA project I worked together with Tiddo Muda and Marlyn Spaaij.
Motivation for the project is to emancipate the genre of animation beyond that of mere children's entertainment. Therefore adults are our target group and the animation product is made to add extra value to socially and politically engaged television programs. Through the power of irony we question the values of Dutch society. After the laughter follows reflection.

Werkelijk Fantastisch / Truly Fantastic from Sandra Verkaart on Vimeo.

Exhibition commission Eject

During my own graduation year I was part of the commission to design and organize the graduation exhibition. We created the concept of a festival-like exhibition, where the interior and exterior would become one: tents to exhibit in and grass on the floor. Since the exhibition was for the graduation of the whole media department of the HKU (games, films, music, animation and video installations) we called it Eject.