Stop! Motion! The illusion of movement - Extended until 23 February 2025
29.02.2024 - 23.02.2025 ,
Die Kiste - Augsburger Puppentheatermuseum (The box - Augsburg Puppet Theater Museum)
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From now on it's "...and action!", because with our new special exhibition "Stop! Motion! The illusion of movement", we are taking museum visitors young and old on a journey into the fascinating world of animated film.
Experience in the Augsburg Puppet Theatre Museum "die Kiste" how the animation technique stop motion is used to create an illusion of movement and thus create fantastic stories. By moving a figure minimally and continuously capturing each snapshot, the impression of movement is created when the sequence of frames is played back quickly - bringing unforgettable characters to life. This also reflects the tradition of puppet theatre: like puppeteers, animators bring the inanimate to life. Let yourself be enchanted by the magic of the stop-motion technique in puppet animation or clay animation. In the "box", for example, you can discover the lovable characters of the GDR and West German Sandman from the archives of rbb media GmbH and the German Institute for Animated Film and we take an exclusive look behind the scenes of the popular series "Shaun the Sheep" with a making-of of the "Sendung mit der Maus".
Using loans from animators and production companies, the exhibition focuses on the contemporary stop-motion scene in Germany. Animated film figures, backdrops and storyboards by Izabela Plucińska, Reynard Films from Leipzig, Tine Kluth, Kathrin Albers, Jim Lacy, Albert Radl, Matthias Daenschel, Valentin Felder and Jan Gadermann are on display. The historical development of stop-motion technology and some pioneers of German and international stop-motion film will also be presented. For example, the exhibition presents exhibits from the silhouette films by Lotte Reiniger from the City Museum in Tübingen. In addition, figures by the well-known animators Ferdinand and Hermann Diehl from the collection of the German Film Institute & Film Museum in Frankfurt are on display.
Stop motion, one of the oldest special effects in film history, is regarded as the forerunner and starting point of stop motion. The pioneering French filmmaker Georges Méliès had already been experimenting with single-frame switching since the 1890s, after he discovered by chance that things could be manipulated in front of the camera between the individual frames and thus create effects such as the disappearance or transformation of people and objects. The stop trick was also used as a special effect in the puppet films of the Augsburger Puppenkiste. For example, the "Castle Ghost Lülü", the "Museum Rats" and the puppets from "3:0 for the Beards" make an appearance in the museum.
In the accompanying programme, Mo Spann alias "Professor Sperrmüller" invites visitors to go on a journey to the beginnings of animation with a self-built zoetrope. A workshop in cooperation with the Augsburg City Library teaches children how they can produce their own stop-motion film with simple means.
Last edited on 10.02.2025