VITAL CONNECTIONS
VITAL CONNECTIONS
This journey collects the experiences and lessons learned from the encounter with second grade boys and girls from a district school in the city of Bogotá. I go through the drawing and its connection with childhood, collective creation as the possibilities of creating an image multiply and finally I find, from animation, a means to tell the wonders of being crossed by the other when teaching.
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If I have to describe my work in a few words: I would say that it is the adventure of wondering about the world and being surprised by the little things; that it is about the discovery of the encounter with the other as a vital act; I would affirm that it is the experience of the collective construction of a universe of voices, forces and feelings; which is the madness of giving life from images, drawing and sound; I would say that it is the game of being a child again, but at the same time being a teacher's apprentice; which is the experiment of teaching from the heart, from dreams and from the imagination; which is the wonder of making the impossible, possible reality.
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I invite you to visualize the progress of the project in chronological order reviewing each stage in its entirety
Japan's Tourism Agency Commissioner's
Award Winner
Japan Tourism Agency Commissioner's AWARD
New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2021 - Hokkaido JAPAN December 2021
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Recognition received for the animation I made as my thesis project at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
EL JUEGO DEL ENCUENTRO | Longing to Return, was selected as the award winner for being a work of especially high quality and because it has an aspect of questioning the nature of imagination in a pandemic situation, as well as being an excellent contemporary work.
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Jury Comment
I was deeply moved by the unbridled imagination of the children, who never stagnated even in the face of difficult circumstances. At the same time, thinking about what the children have lost makes me sad.
THESIS
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Winning project of Scholarship
In May 2020 I applied for my project to a call for a scholarship offered by the district stimulus program of the Ministry of Culture, Recreation and Sports. The scholarship is called: "Scholarship to support the professionalization of agents of the arts, heritage and / or cultural management"
Journalistic notes
Bogotá Mayor's Office article about my experience in the development of this project within the framework of the Scholarship granted by the district.