Animated Student Shorts 1

70 minutes

Teenager Jámon, the only pig in his family, a mole that follows his
dreams all the way to the beach, and the daily routine of the wind
blowing around a windy country.

This program screened as part of KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2013

Showing in this program

Chicken or the Egg

Chicken or the Egg

  • Christine Kim / Elaine Wu
  • United States, 2013
  • 3 min.

Chicken or the Egg is an offbeat romantic comedy about a pig who has an EGGdiction to eating eggs. But when he falls in love with the hottest chicken in town, he must choose what comes first... the Chicken or the Egg.

I Love You So Hard

I Love You So Hard

  • Ross Butter
  • United Kingdom, 2013
  • 4 min.

Our demented lothario loves his lady very hard. He demonstrates his affections by explaining all the wonderful things he will do for her.

I’m all right

I’m all right

  • Meredith Strandquist
  • Norway / United Kingdom, 2012

A polar bear, in the city, makes himself a canned tuna sandwich and reminisces about his lost arctic habitat upon seeing the iceberg lettuce packaging.

Jamón

Jamón

  • Iria Lopez
  • United Kingdom, 2012
  • 8 min.

Jamón is a teenage pig living in a Spanish town, and he is the only pig in his family. One day a new neighbour moves in next door, and Jamón starts to come to terms with who he really is.

Little Freak

Little Freak

  • Edwin Schaap
  • The Netherlands, 2013
  • 3 min.

A young deformed boy lives as a side-show freak. When his father asks him to make a birthday-wish he starts to imagine...

Move Mountain

Move Mountain

  • Kirsten Lepore
  • United States, 2013
  • 10 min.

A girl journeys through a vibrant, pulsing, macrocosmic landscape, but a precipitous incident compels her to venture up a mountain in an attempt to save herself.

Reverie

Reverie

  • Shujun Wong / Robert Wincierz / Valentin Gagarin
  • Germany, 2012
  • 12 min.

An inconspicuous citizen on the way to work is torn out of his daily routine when he witnesses a rail suicide. The event haunts him in his imagination and mixes rapidly with his own reality of social downfall in a cascade of surreal nightmares.

The Ballet

The Ballet

  • Louis Thomas
  • France, 2012
  • 4 min.
The Little Bird and the Leaf

The Little Bird and the Leaf

  • Lena von Döhren
  • Switzerland, 2012
  • 4 min.

It's winter. At the end of a branch hangs a single leaf. A little black bird comes along to water the leaf, but it falls off. The wind lifts the leaf and dances with it through the snowy wood. The little bird joins in, delighted. But the fiery red fox behind the tree is already licking his lips.

The Mole at the Sea

The Mole at the Sea

  • Anna Kadykova
  • Russia, 2012
  • 5 min.

About the Mole who went to look for a beach of his dream but found a lot of asses and no free space.

Wind

Wind

  • Robert Loebel
  • Germany, 2012
  • 3 min.

WIND is a short animation about the daily routine life in a windy country.

Zen Zen Wakaranai: No Idea

Zen Zen Wakaranai: No Idea

  • Fay Heady-Carroll
  • The Netherlands / Japan, 2012
  • 8 min.

The true story of Fay, a Westerner living in Japan and Eri, a Japanese girl living in Holland who are making an animation together.