Regardless of who we are, where or what our situation is, we all played this game by names familiar and strange and by an infinite assortment of rules. With friends old and new we learned about our strengths and weaknesses as we were introduced to our identity through this ritual.
Over two years, I captured interviews with people from all over the world regarding the way they grew up playing this game, the names they had for it and their stories surrounding tag. Out of that experience, I distilled this brief odyssey attempting to capture the essence of a simple, yet overlooked, part of who we are.
The film is only as long as the average game of tag, which I gather is around 22 minutes.
Tag and our own memories of it wash over us as we spend a few moments with experts from the Jane Goodall Institute, the Anthropology Department at the University of Minnesota and the International Play Association, who discuss the essential role play has in our development as a culture and as individuals, while the sights and sounds reconnect us with our capacity for play – the catalyst that leads us to “bootstrap moments” of whimsy, creation and discovery.
Keep playing. http://www.thinfilms.org/tag/
Fun bits about play in the media around us.......... enjoy!
