Films pour enfants

Make a slideshow

Visual arts6-11 years old

Educational activity around the short film The Sleepwalker

Expected end of activities

Represent the surrounding world or give shape to your imagination by exploring the diversity of fields (drawing, painting, collage, etc.)

The Sleepwalker

The Sleepwalker © Bonobostudio

TitleThe Sleepwalker

ThemeTraditional animation

Genre & keywordsExperimental,

Age (for film)6-11 years old

DirectorTheodore Ushev

MusicKottarashky

ProductionUnité Centrale (Canada, 2015)

Educational activities

Create a slideshow with the children's plastic productions inspired by the video.

A difficult film to interpret because the author offers his own interpretation in image and music of Federico Garcia Lorca's poem “Sonambulo Romance” (sleepwalking ballad, 1928).

Show the video to the students without telling them anything. Gather their impressions and ask them to formulate hypotheses. What do you think this cartoon is about? Then give the title of the film to the students and translate it with them. Watch the video again and collect new hypotheses. Then give the explanations to the students by talking to them about the poem by Federico Garcia Lorca. Read it and make the links with the video. Rewatch the film and look for the gypsy girl, the guards, the moon...

Then ask the students to imagine how they could draw the dreams of a sleepwalker, drawing inspiration from the video and the poem. Everyone will be able to give free rein to their imagination and use the material of their choice (drawing, painting, cutting, collage, etc.). If necessary, watch the video again and take note of the shapes and colors for inspiration.

Once the productions are finished, take photos of them and then put them end to end in a slideshow. Show this slideshow to the students. We can then put it to music by choosing the same one as the video, or by taking another one.

Organize a viewing session with other classes or with parents to highlight the children's work.

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Activity sheet written by: Valérie du blog Val 10. Discover the Val 10 blog...

The Sleepwalker © Bonobostudio