Change CLIMATE CHANGE

This short film provides a unique perspective on our climate emergency from the viewpoint of the generation who will be most affected. It is a cross-generational collaboration between a class of eight and nine- year old children and photographer Gideon Mendel who has been photographing and filming in communities around the world affected by flooding and fire for the last eighteen years. The film weaves together the beautiful artworks made by the pupils, situating them in close dialogue with Gideon’s photographs and video footage that inspired them. Through changes of medium from photographic print to drawing to video, this film explores the tension between documentary reality and creative storytelling and is a powerful challenge to us all from a remarkable and globally diverse group of children. By Gideon Mendel and the Year 4 Class at Mandeville Primary School, Hackney, London