Voices from Hamm

(Stimmen aus Hamm)

Video Editor (Post Production). This project was initiated by IFF (International Frauen Forum) Hamm e.V.

Excerpt from press release:

“The STIMMEN AUS HAMM project and the exhibition by the nationwide network of media makers with refugee and migration backgrounds, ‘Nichts über uns ohne uns’ (Nothing about us without us), focus on creating media, finding one’s own voice, and making local social diversity visible and audible. Who reports on whom, what and how? How do you produce your own media? What can community radio stations and media do? How can we get involved ourselves in Hamm?

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From September to November, a series of workshops and interviews with women took place in Hamm. In the introductory media workshops, the women were invited to experiment together with audio recordings and interviews as a form of self-expression. There were workshops on storytelling with sound, creative writing, and discussion groups for women with experience of displacement and migration. Children and young people were also invited to take part in STIMMEN AUS HAMM, using video and smartphones to visually tell stories from their everyday lives in Hamm.

Co-producers of STIMMEN AUS HAMM include Raras Umaratih, Shokhoufeh Eftekhar and Sören Meffert (video), Joseph Mahame (sound) and Mahtab Dardarsefatmahboob (creative writing), as well as Mahtab and Megha Uchti from the netzwerk medien.vielfalt!”

https://archive.org/details/Stimmen_aus_Hamm

Check out the full video series on Youtube here!

To this day, this has been one of my favourite commissioned projects ever. It was such an honour to listen to all these peoples’ accounts, and such an honor to weave together a visual storytelling to accompany their tales.

All of the videos and drawings were taken by the project participants, the interviewees themselves, and used with their consent.