KIDS Process
May 28, 2021
KIDS is a project by Michael Frei and Mario von Rickenbach.
This page documents the development of the animated film, game, and installation chronologically.
2019 and later
Are we there yet?
Old habits.
Editing process.
The film KIDS is a carefully choreographed version of the game.
We celebrated the film's premiere at the Berlinale in early 2019.
Debugging channel behaviour.
There were still a few things to fix before the release of the game. 🪳
App icon evolution over the years.
Playable Teaser Website: playkids.ch/toys/clap
May 28th 2019: Game Release Day 🥳
First public talk after the release of the game. Groomed.
1.6M
2018 Iowa's 4th congressional district election campaign
English Premiere League
3.8M
Covid jokes 2020
The "repel scene" in conjunction with various captions popped up as a meme on social media sites, seen by millions.
And there were all these YouTube Let's Play Videos.
A1 poster
The film KIDS was shown at well over 100 festivals in its first year.
Golden Zagreb Prize (encouragement of creativity and innovative artistic achievement). The film won over 20 award things.
KIDS at BLON Lithuanian, September 2020
Swiss Minister of Culture (Alain Berset) enjoys clapping with KIDS.
Strange things happened in Korea.
Maintenant Fesival, Rennes
Maintenant Fesival, Rennes
Shenzhen Bay STArts Festival, Shenzhen
Solothurner Filmtage, Solothurn
Game On! 2019, Buenos Aires
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Ars Electronica, Linz
Ars Electronica, Linz
Design Biennale, Zürich
Kein Museum, Zürich
NTT InterCommunication Center ICC, Tokyo
Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana
Fantoche Festival, Baden
The KIDS exhibition is travelling the world.
Final Thoughts & Acknowledgements
We want to thank everyone who played the game, dared to watch the film on the big screen or touched KIDS at an exhibition. A special thank you goes to everyone who worked on the project, and to all the good people who supported us during the making.