{"id":8549,"title":"Postcards from the Desert Island ","dimensions":"00:22:23","date_begin":"2010-01-01","material":"SD video transferred to DVD, painted backdrop","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":21,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":6,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy of Galleria Laveronica, Modica","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":"2011-01-01","reference":"","stream_count_app":15,"permalink":"postcards-from-the-desert-island","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Video","nl":"Video","fr":"Video"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/019/194/large/Screen.jpg?1382018376","poster_credits":"(c)Galleria Laveronica, Modica","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"*Postcards from the Desert Island* documents a three-week workshop conducted with children attending the École Vitruve in Paris, a parent-run experimental public elementary school. In reference to William Golding’s novel *Lord of the Flies* the children were invited to collectively build and organise a society on a fictional desert island in their school assembly hall. They quickly run into political difficulties, such as the structures of decision-making or the role and rule of law. The film shows ‘a world in a nutshell’ where the children’s discussions and experiments of self-governance echo the impasses of Western democracies and the struggle for power inside such systems."},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"*Postcards from the Desert Island* (Postkaarten van een onbewoond eiland) documenteert een workshop van drie weken met kinderen uit de École Vitruve in Parijs, een experimentele openbare basisschool die gerund wordt door de ouders. Geïnspireerd door William Goldings roman *Heer der vliegen* werden de kinderen uitgenodigd om gezamenlijk een samenleving uit te bouwen en te organiseren op een fictief onbewoond eiland in de aula van de school. Al vlug botsen ze op politieke problemen zoals de structuren van de besluitvorming of de rol en de regels van de ordehandhaving. De film toont ‘een wereld in een notendop’, waar de discussies en experimenten in zelfbestuur van de kinderen het spiegelbeeld vormen van de impasses van de westerse democratieën en de strijd om de macht binnen dergelijke systemen."},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":2113,"name":"Adelita Husni-Bey","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}