Moving house is seldom a stress-free experience – particularly for young people, who can feel disempowered by being relocated by their parents. The angst and woe of the protagonist of Mari Kanstad Johnson’s award-winning wordless picturebook is … [Read more...]
International Father’s Day [Starptautiskā Tēva Diena]
This student film is directed by Latvian filmmaker Edmunds Jansons at the Estonian Academy of the Arts. This film is about the bonds between father and child, whether human or animal, in a highly stylized and aesthetically vibrant depiction of the … [Read more...]
Jubilee [Jubilé]
This buoyant short film is made in France but represents British culture. What begins with the Queen’s hat getting blown into the wind turns into a mad dash around London for one of her dutiful guards, accompanied by her devoted corgi. Although the … [Read more...]
Little Red Riding Hood [Le Petit Chaperon Rouge]
Rascal’s version of Little Red Riding Hood is a postmodern retelling of the classic fairy tale. The picturebook evokes the minimalist graphics of an early video game, using simple iconic depictions of symbols from the fairy tale to challenge the … [Read more...]
Diary of a Fridge
A husband and wife buy a second-hand fridge in 1971; the film focuses on the fridge in the mise-en-scène over the next decades as the family gets bigger, children get older, and so on. As the children become teenagers, the world changes around them. … [Read more...]
Foundations
This short film handles a large set of complex issues in under two minutes. A child on the beach prepares a sandcastle, intricately adorned with shells and plants to look like a well-loved home. As the waves begin to roll in, the child’s mother comes … [Read more...]
Goldilocks and the Three Bears [Boucle d’or & les trois ours]
Rascal’s version of the classic fairy tale is similar to the postmodern retellings of Little Red Riding Hood that can be found in Attention: Fairy Passage! [Attenzione, passagio fiabe!]. The picturebook challenges the reader about our expectations … [Read more...]
Birthday Gift [Doğum Günü Hediyesi]
This Turkish wordless picturebook begins with an almost cinematic introduction to the island towns that populate the shores of Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus. Readers unfamiliar with this part of the world will be excited by the interesting white-brick … [Read more...]
Belonging
The corpus would not be complete without this classic work by Jeannie Baker, a British-Australian author whose work using collage often interacts with themes pertinent to the DIALLS Project. One of the oldest picturebooks in the corpus, Belonging won … [Read more...]
