ANIMATION FILMS PRODUCED WITH CHILDREN:

multiple thoughts in collective and collaborative work

Abstract

Cinema is a powerful device capable of enabling discovery and knowledge of oneself, of other people and of inventing other worlds, of seeing ourselves from different points of view and, above all, of making us think about who we are, what they have done. of us and what we want/can be. This text aims to think about the potential of cinema based on collective productions carried out with children in projects carried out in Brazil and Portugal. This is ongoing research, for which teachers/filmmakers from both countries were interviewed, seeking to collect, discuss and problematize their narratives about encounters with cinema in the production of animated films with children. In this text, we have sought, more specifically, to select and analyze two animated films produced with children in project experiences, one of them made by a Portuguese filmmaker-teacher, and the other, from my production experience with children. The article proposes some problematizations around the similarities and differences that can be observed in the productions of one country and another. When analyzing the films, attention was paid to the richness of the children's arguments, to the efficiency of the thought generated in the audiovisual productions and to the repercussion of the theme, whether within the group, as a collective, or on each individual, as an individual.