HUMANS – exploring the human condition
Ten questions, one person, one story, one film – this is the simple idea behind HUMANS.
When have you asked yourself the last time, what makes me happy? Or: What influenced my life the most? We do exactly that in HUMANS. We interview people with ten basic questions about life. We document their lifes with photography and video. And we create multimedia shortfilms about each of those people.
HUMANS is a transmedia oriented project that was started by Flow Media with the goal to create a deeper understanding of people in different life circumstances. Starting with a journey from toe to top of Africa in 2011, now spreading over to Europe, India and other places, we create a growing plattform that allow to get insights into the life, thoughts and living cirumstances of people from different places.
We believe that when we understand each other better, when we understand other cultures better and other life circumstances, when we get to the personal core, the world is a better place. This is why there is HUMANS.
Von Dü backstage
In 2010 I met a young danish Reggae/ Dancehall band that had just recorded their first album. In the coming months Flow Media produced a couple of videos for them, documenting the life at the concerts and behind the scenes.
Two years later Von Dü is about to take the next step. Having just recorded their second album and is slowly developing from the fun underground party band to a contender for the best liveband in Denmark.
Von Dü is taking us on an interesting journey, using the new ways to engage with an audience and finding their position in a music market that is no longer only dominated by the big labels.
And we are with them.
With Our Own Eyes
“With our own eyes – Rwanda through the eyes of it’s people” was the name of a project we did in November 2009 in Rwanda.
While the main part of the project was a photography workshop with a focus in visual storytelling through pictures, the idea behind it was deeper. For the first time in history many people in developing countries have access to modern information and communication technologies. At least the young educated population is using platforms like facebook and almost everyone has a cellphone, many with small cameras.
Why not take advantage of that, we thought, and make visual storytelling not only something foreign journalists and photographers do, but instead bring the storytelling back to the people and sensitize them for the new possibilities. Everyone has a story to tell and who could do that better than a person that lives at the place, lives the life and knows all about the culture and people.
After an application process, we chose twenty students from different subjects and taught in a five days workshop the basics of photography and storytelling. Every group had to chose a story they found important to tell and had three days to gain access and create a photo essay of ten to twelve pictures. During the process they had both one on one support and every evening a come together to exchange ideas, problems and seek more advice.
The results (keep in mind that they were done with cellphones) can be seen on the project website.