In nuce: As part of our recurring weekly series “Animago Afternoon”, we present pearls, gems and other gems from last year’s Animago film festivals at the best time of the afternoon. This time we’re showing you the short film nominated in the “Best Visualisation” category, salvaged from the Animago archives in 2015, which addresses a sensitive topic: “Young Heroes” deals with organ donation and was made by Robert Pohle, Ronny Schmidt, Maurice Mersinger and Jochen Mader from Uhsless (now Studio Streckenbach). Uli Streckenbach is the man behind Uhsless, who was awarded an animago trophy for his graduation film “Ending Overfishing” at the Kunsthochschule Halle in 2012, as well as for “Let’s talk about soil” a year later (which we presented to you on 25 May this year ).
What is “Young Heroes” about? All people are united by mortality. This is often suppressed. People are also very reluctant to think about the reuse of their own organs after death. The “Young Heroes” organisation advocates an individual and considered decision on the subject of organ donation. To this end, Uhsless from Berlin produced a five-minute 3D animation film explaining the organ donation process – step by step, step by step.” This is how Mirja Fürst’s magazine article on the film project, published in DP 03 : 2016, began.
Click further: The highly relevant short film is linked below in full length. We say: Watch the film – and consider an organ donor card? Join in at junge-helden.org or get involved in the good cause.
Young heroes: The process of organ donation
