A selection of short films on folk tales. Red Riding Hood, Cinderella… Free and legal viewing.
Revisiting folk tales. The stories we listened to before falling asleep and that we tell before they fall asleep.
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In the service of children's education, films as a pedagogical support tool.
Fairy tales, wondrous tales, cultural relics, have survived the ages. The definition of a tale is complex. Often cruel, it reflects an era when frightening children at bedtime was an educational method.
Alone in the forest, you'll be eaten!
Fascinating to analyse our ancestral fears and anxieties in the face of the unknown.
But the wondrous tale is also a gateway to the imagination.
Telling a fairy tale is a bit like planting seeds in a child's mind.
((after Bruno Bettelheim in his The Uses of Enchantment)
"Little Red Riding Hood" has had many versions: with Charles Perrault the story ends with the wolf's victory and, with the Brothers Grimm, the heroine escapes safe and sound.
Pick up your pens!
But what if things had turned out differently… Pick up your pens! Imagine new adventures and a surprising ending to this folk tale.
© Howard Kingston, AOKIstudio. MIXUP, interactive stories.
Using the film "Sleeping Betty", a revisited Cinderella, list the parodies and subversions of traditional fairy-tale attributes (drawbridge door, vacuum-cleaner broom…).
A spectacular ending for Jack and the Beanstalk? An inconceivable conclusion for The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids? Imagine the adventures of a new fairy tale!
