Students from the 7th Montessori school in Nieuw-West were followed last year for a documentary series about death. Maker Sara Kolster says that adults can also learn something about dealing with this.
Primary school pupils have been confronted with death several times in recent years. For example, ten-year-old Minh’s teacher died of cardiac arrest. “I think she might be in teacher heaven,” says Minh. “With flying pencils and lots of erasers.”
“Every child has their own way of expressing grief,” says Kolster. “Or when someone dies, how he or she reacts to it. And that of course also applies to all the ideas and fantasies that are out there, what happens when someone dies, where do you go.”
She says that her docuseries shows that, although it is very sad, you can also look at death from a different perspective. “You just see very beautifully how they can coexist. That you can be very sad and very serious about death, but that it can also be light or airy.”
The first episode of the four-part series As dead as mutton ican be seen on NPO3 on Sunday evening.