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Katu Katu

Giedrė Boots, 2021

A caterpillar and its kitten friends find a new friend to play with: a ball of string. They embark on a journey of discovery, exploring the world around them, while the caterpillar’s journey goes further and leads to its eventual transformation into a butterfly.

The filmmaker merges live action and 2D animation, allowing filmed footage of the kittens to dictate the narrative of the ball of wool and the caterpillar.

Clip Details

Genre: Abstract

Country of Origin: Lithuania

Medium/Content: Colour, Sound, Fiction, No Dialogue, Mixed Media

Clip Length: 05:57

Classroom Activities

  • What do you notice about the characters in the film? How are the caterpillar/butterfly and wool ball different from the kittens? How can you tell?
  • Why has the director used live action and animation to make the film? What would be good about making a film this way? What might be difficult?
  • Where does this take place? How can we tell? What evidence is there in the film? What time is it set? Is it in the morning/midday/evening? What time of year is it (spring/summer/autumn/winter)? How can we tell?
  • Does anyone have pets? Are they trained? Would it be easier to train cats or kittens? Do you think the kittens in the film are trained? If they weren’t trained, how would the filmmaker make the movie? What would they have to think about?
  • Who are you friendly with in school? Do you have friends out of school? What makes a good friend? What qualities would you look for? What interests would be good? Does friendship mean the same for everyone?
  • What strategies do you use to make friends? If there was a new pupil, how would you help them make friends? Create a “How to Make Friends” film.
  • Write a short conversation between the ball of wool and the caterpillar upon their first meeting. This could be planned on individual speech bubble cut-outs and done in pairs or groups of three.
  • Choose from a variety of backgrounds to work with and then select images from comics/magazines/newspapers/old books/illustrations to create an experimental scene.

Clip Details

Genre: Abstract

Country of Origin: Lithuania

Medium/Content: Colour, Sound, Fiction, No Dialogue, Mixed Media

Clip Length: 05:57