Best Shorts of Kaboom 2021

70 minutes
Best Shorts of Kaboom 2021

Pressed for time? Take advantage of our compilation of the prize-winning shorts of the festival.

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2020-2021

Showing in this program

Affairs of the Art

Affairs of the Art

  • Joanna Quinn / Les Mills
  • United Kingdom / Canada, 2021
  • 16 min.

How many obsessions can one family have? In Joanna Quinn and Les Mills’ Affairs of the Art, we reconnect with Beryl, the working-class heroine who not only reveals her own obsession with drawing but exposes the addictions of her eccentric family, which include pickling, screw threads and pet taxidermy.

Average Happiness

Average Happiness

  • Maja Gehrig
  • Switzerland, 2019
  • 7 min.

During a PowerPoint presentation, statistical diagrams are breaking free from the strait-jacket of their
coordinates. A trip into the sensual world of statistics begins. Pie charts are melting, arrow diagrams twisting, scatter plots, bar graphs and stock market curves join in a collective climax.

Bach-Hông

Bach-Hông

  • Elsa Duhamel
  • France, 2019
  • 18 min.

Jeanne was born in 1959 in Saigon. She enjoyed a privileged lifestyle, protected from the war between North and South Vietnam. Fascinated by horses, Jeanne rode a mare called Bach-Hông. But on April 30th 1975, the communists stormed the city.

I’m Herestudents

I’m Here

  • Julia Orlik
  • Poland, 2020
  • 14 min.

An elderly man is looking after his paralyzed wife. Despite his old age and health problems he's doing his best to relieve her suffering. His daughter helps him, trying to balance care with her work. Award for Best Student Short at Kaboom Animation Festival 2022.

Jabberwocky

Jabberwocky

  • Sjaak Rood
  • The Netherlands, 2020
  • 2 min.

A brave boy goes hunting for the Jabberwock despite the warning of the old man.
When the monster is beaten, it still looks like the story will end badly.
Jabberwocky is a poem filled with nonsense words that don't mean anything, but, miraculously, you understand excactly what the story is about.

See Me

See Me

  • Patty Stenger / Yvonne Kroese
  • The Netherlands, 2020
  • 8 min.

When nobody sees you, you seem to disappear. Only when you fall, you seem to belong, just for a little while.

Seoulsori

Seoulsori

  • Kyoung-bae Kim
  • South Korea, 2020
  • 3 min.

The boy is swept up and gets lost in the parade pouring into the room.