by Manuela | Oct 7, 2021 | Friends Like Me Videos
Uncertain Times M any of the young people who participated in this project have had to cope with extremely difficult circumstances during lockdown over the last year and a half. All of them had to put their lives on hold, no matter what personal challenges they were...
by Manuela | Mar 8, 2020 | Friends Like Me Videos
Reflections on a digital childhood A number of months have gone by since I last wrote in this blog. During this time, I’ve been documenting and thinking. Creativity is a slow process with me. In December 2019, I started a new series of films in which participants...
by Manuela | Jun 24, 2019 | Friends Like Me Videos
Are questions more powerful than answers? Recently, I have been organizing playlists to share more of the media in my growing video library. The first one is called “It’s Emotional” (see the videos playlist page) simply because many of the young people I engage with,...
by Manuela | Apr 5, 2019 | Friends Like Me Videos
Do we underestimate the pressure of self-documentation? A few weeks after writing my last blog post: “Why do we judge girls for imitating tropes of female sexuality?” I went back into my ever-growing video library to listen to what other girls had to say...
by Manuela | Feb 20, 2019 | Friends Like Me Videos
Do we judge girls for imitating tropes about female sexuality? I n this interview, Inimini (13 years old) tells me that music videos often ruin the songs she likes to listen to. When I ask her why, she explains that no matter what the song is about, the...
by Manuela | Jan 29, 2019 | Friends Like Me Videos
From Cartoons to Porn in Seconds – Part 2 In my last blog post, I shared a film interview in which my son, at age ten, recounts the story of how he was pranked (at age nine) into seeing a hard-core porn site by a friend. Four years later, I interviewed my son...
