The award-winning shorts of Kaboom 2022!
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If you’re pressed for time, you could find yourself a nice YouTube video about time management. But you could also just take advantage of Best Shorts of Kaboom: our compilation of the very best shorts of the festival, as chosen by both our honorable jury and distinguished audience. So no need to worry about not having the time to check out all the amazing shorts at our festival: we’ve got your back.
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Watch out!! A large pudding is threatening the city! Wait - whut? - back up... After Ronin neglects to clear up her dropped groceries, they start to mix and bubble, transforming into a small pudding. Whilst this initially seems odd, for Ronin, it is easily ignorable. Over the next few days, the pudding grows bigger and bigger. Uh-oh... Can she continue to ignore it?
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Right at the edge of political, meditative and hopeful video-art and animation, there is this moving piece of cinema that has the look of a delicate oil painting. We see the outlines of an abandoned village. Decay sets in. A village, like a human being, is born out of love. A village, like a human being, is ruined, if left without love and care.
Ambitiously animated, this short explores the tension in watching and being watched, and the effects of rejection can have on one's self-image. An uncanny and eerie watch that will make you question the looks you give and receive.
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Six years in the making, the philosophical genre film Camouflage is a dystopian thriller in which we follow four days in the life of office clerk Amouf, while he desperately tries to hold his life together while the world around him gets darker and darker, following the rise of De Jager. This flamboyant and highly intimidating creature is a hate-instigating vigilante, who has sworn to systematically prosecute certain groups. A hand-drawn animated film with over 800(!) character-animations.
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In an imaginary space a woman lets go of herself and overcomes fearing her own greatness. She discovers her body, she embraces her emotions, and learns to own all the parts that make her HER. With stark black-and-white imagery, this music video for Canadian singer-songwriter kai is a story about the female nature and body.
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In the thirteenth century, at the time of the attack of the Mongols, a young musician and the love of his life are separated from each other. Fifty years after the incident, after Persia bowed to the invaders, the musician is summoned to perform at the castle of the Mongols where his beloved is being held. Meticulously crafted and with an achingly beautiful score, the film pays homage to love in times of extreme sorrow.
Kaboom Animation Festival is the one-stop-shop for the latest and greatest in all things animated. Ranging from cutting-edge experimental arthouse to colorful stories for families and kids, Kaboom will cater to the animation needs of all. Yes, even yours, my amazing weirdo friend!
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