Frooom!

Frooom! is an innovative media, film and computer literacy education for children and youth, focusing on intercultural exchange and fostering children’s understanding of human rights and understanding of “others”.

This education method insists on interactive learning, empowering children and youth to understand media content from any possible point of view and teaching them trough playfulness and fun.

We forensically trace evidence on all historical attempts to “create” films and moving pictures in the last 3000 years, we analyze new and old media content as well, using, in a maieutic way, a hermeneutic methodology while we shift all the time different points of views.

Frooom! is an innovative educational program for children and young people from 8 to 16 years, which introduces them to what they cannot see and understand by watching movies, TV series, music videos, computer games and web-media programs. Through an intensive process of game-like education and exploration, children learn about the nature of film, while experimenting with everything where film, as we know it today, comes from: from Chinese Zoetropes, French Praxinoscopes, through Mannerist optical experiments, experimental animation of still photography and Camera Obscura to computer software, advanced video and 3-D mapping and digital technology.

The mission of the project is also to stimulate critical approach of children and youth towards media contents and foster intercultural exchange of cultural, media and local knowledge – primarily in the region of Mediterranean area, Balkan region and the EU between artists, authors, cultural operators and policy makers, between a larger or targeted audience as well.