The basic theme of the films created are the fantastic thresholds, the locks and transfer points between the real primary world and the fictional, fantastic secondary world. The aim of the exercises was to visualise the specific mechanisms, motifs and procedures of the fantastic narrative style: The brief moment of transition, of crossing boundaries, of transformation, of hallucination. The familiar was called into question, the familiar further developed: How can everyday places and everyday objects take on a threshold function? Using cinematic means, the everyday and the ordinary were given attributes that hint at the magical and the fantastic, reinvented or quoted from familiar models.

The process: Stop-motion is a common animation film technique in which objects are only slightly altered in their position and movement frame by frame. The motionless is thus brought to life as a film sequence. Whether "cut-out animation", "claymation" or "puppet animation", the students used a variety of stop-motion forms and techniques in the five videos shown.

The affordable technology (hardware and software) makes it possible to use this process in school projects. This seminar also served as an inspiration for the prospective art teachers to use digital tools in schools.

"Of chewing and smacking in the attic" "In the land of dreams" "ActionAndi" "The lollipop from the land of treats" "Vince's adventures"