Balla Balla Pirates

Movie content: a pirate crew boards a merchant ship with a large treasure of gold. When transferring the gold to their ship, they pack everything onto one side of the pirate ship, causing it to capsize. The gold sinks to the bottom of the sea and the pirates fall into the water. The captain now makes a run for it. His crew is simply too stupid for him. The parrot, who knows the captain's commands well, now takes command. A project by Kunstreich im Pott e.V. in cooperation with FABIDO Familienzentrum Dürener Straße. Project management Ulrike Korbach, music and music workshop: Martin Wölfel, funding: Künste öffnen Welten, Kultur macht stark, Kulturbüro der Stadt Dortmund, main prize Team-Award deutscher Jugendfilmpreis 2019

The world is not enough

Video from a 2013 performance film project by UZwei at Dortmunder U. Workshop leader film: Ulrike Korbach, workshop leader performance: Jody Korbach, recognition German Multimedia Award MB21 2014, category media art,

Children aged eight to fourteen created video clips in the form of associative performances. It all starts with an experiment. The children look for objects from the pool provided by the workshop organizers and use them to playfully develop ideas. Prototype was an accompanying project to the "Moving Types" exhibition at the Dortmunder Us. This showed various film clips in which typography played a key role. The children watched the exhibition and experimented with letters. One example sequence: one participant stuck two straws up his nose and the V was born. The others picked up on this and created a series in the form of an alliteration: quarter to four, many birds lose. This resulted in an animated film in which many people lose their birds and a performance in which the children play birds and a lion. The lion wins the roaring contest and many birds lose. All at a quarter to four, of course. The important thing with this project is to get the children out of the prefabricated patterns they know from TV series or films and lead them to their own worlds of ideas.

It fits

Children (3-6 years old) from the Dürener Straße family center made an animated film about migration and living together in Germany. In the stop-motion film, the triangles leave their home country so that the father can find work again. It was based on the stories of the parents, who talked about their migration history. As the parents were worried that a film about their migration stories and living together in Germany could reinforce stereotypes, the story was told using shapes. The triangles leave their beautiful country to find work. They are not very welcome in the land of squares. They simply don't fit in here. The movie tells the story of how they manage to integrate and what happens when the circles arrive. The children were able to get to grips with the world of shapes because they had the corresponding construction kits in the daycare center. The question of fitting is crucial here: does a circle fit through the opening of a square? So the transfer was not difficult for them. Leading the figure-making workshop: Turbo Prop Theater. Funding: Künste öffnen Welten (BKJ), Kultur macht stark. 1st place Camgaroo Award, category up to 10 years old

The giraffe family is actually doing well in Africa until there are fights between rival rhino groups. So the giraffe family decides to flee to Europe on a ship, which little Kibu doesn't like at all. Things are peaceful with the zebras, but the grass is so dry that they also leave their home to avoid starvation. So the giraffes and zebras arrive in Europe, where they are not at all welcome at first. This film tells the story of how everything turns out for the better. A project by Kunstreich im Pott e.V. as part of Interkultur Bottrop. In cooperation with the Migration Department of the City of Bottrop and the Welheimer Mark kindergarten. The project began with the migration stories of parents and grandparents that existed before Kibu, then the kindergarten children from Welheimer Mark, together with their teachers and the filmmaker Ulrike Korbach, invented animals that have also come a long way to Germany. This is how they came up with giraffes. Prizes: 1st place German Youth Video Prize 2014, Project Prize Kinder- und Jugendkulturland NRW, nominated for the German Human Rights Prize

2013

Main award at German Film Award for the youth for Sausage mash

clay animation in cooperation with the FABIDO daycare center Hainalle and the Cultural Office of the City of Dortmund

2. award at German Film Award for the youth for Dark journey

clay animation in cooperation with the Ährenkorn daycare center and the Cultural Office of the City of Dortmund

Award of North-Rhyne Westfalia for Kibu and his new friends, 

Clay animation in cooperation with the Welheimer Mark daycare center, Bottrop and the Migration Department of the City of Bottrop

Nomination at German human rights award for Kibu and his new friends, 

Clay animation in cooperation with the Welheimer Mark daycare center, Bottrop and the Migration Department of the City of Bottrop

Special Media Education Award at Rhineland-Palatinate Video Film Award
for Kibu and the new friends

clay animation in cooperation with the Welheimer Mark daycare center, Bottrop and the Migration Department of the City of Bottrop

2012
2. award Preschool category at German multimedia Award for the youth for Dark Journey, clay animation in cooperation with the Ährenkorn daycare center and the Cultural Office of the City of Dortmund

2011
1st prize Preschool category at German multimedia Award for That's enough,

clay animation in cooperation with the FABIDO Family Center Dürener Straße and the Cultural Office of the City of Dortmund

3rd prize Category preschool at German multimedia Award for Fritz and Fred,

clay animation in cooperation with the FABIDO daycare center Hombruchsfeld, Dortmund and the Cultural Office of the City of Dortmund

2010

Prize of the Rhineland-Palatinate Media Education Service at Rhineland-Palatinate Video Film Award for Fritz und Fred

clay animation in cooperation with the FABIDO daycare center Hombruchsfeld, Dortmund and the Cultural Office of the City of Dortmund