Strap in, because the safety is off ... Welcome to the world of weird, WTF, whacky, and sfjqslfjlmqzjflksjflqj (even our keyboard is out of control).

Strap in, because the safety is off ... Welcome to the world of weird, WTF, whacky, and sfjqslfjlmqzjflksjflqj (even our keyboard is out of control). This is the space of oddities. Accompanied by evil laughter, Kaboom presents a selection of shorts that will make your scream for mercy (or your mommy). The way of the wicked has never been more delicious.

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2023

Showing in this program

Birds Whose Legs Break Off

• Dirk Verschure
• Germany, 2022
• 7 min.

A mysterious disease sweeps through the bird population and practically everything goes to hell. Planes crash, cities burn and the TV stops broadcasting. Hundreds of characters succumb to the, “bird plague”, too fast for everyone to really react. A lot of different situations happen one after another going quicker and quicker. We pass a dentist, a children's birthday party, a football match. Everybody seems to be oblivious to what's happening until it actually happens to themselves.

Catisfaction

• Andre Almeida
• Portugal, 2022
• 6 min.

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Don’t Die On Me

• Ori Goldberg
• Israel, 2022
• 2 min.

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Fish&Love

• Margot Casabonne-Masounave / Emma Thevenet / Clara Ibrahim / Lucas Gaerthner / Marion Cortesi / Simon Chassanne
• France, 2022
• 2 min.

Roger, guided by sensual TV chef The Fisherman, is preparing dinner for a date when he gets bitten by the salmon he is cooking. Transformed into a fish, he goes through his whole flat against his will - but his date is nearly there…

Hot Buns

• Calleen Koh
• Singapore, 2022
• 10 min.

Set in a strange polarised world of Butts and Hands, "Hot Buns" follows the story of how a single act of violence against an oppressed Butt ignites a media frenzy. The film follows the incident, which is broadcast on live television by a world-renowned chef, and the emergence of a butt empowerment movement seeking to challenge the status quo of their society. Structured around parodies of entertainment and social media content, the film explores the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of performative media and its potential to both help and harm communities.

Like a Rabbit

• Nayon Cho
• United States, 2021
• 2 min.

A girl searches desperately to fill her insatiable void.

Love to Death

• Yi-xiang Lin / Bo-yi Wu
• Taiwan, 2022
• 7 min.

A zombie couple wishes to have a smooth life like normal humans. However, an avaricious human ruins their life one day. The male zombie decides to fight with the human for his family.

Phonorama

• Alex Rey
• Spain, 2022
• 12 min.

Jose Antonio is about to enjoy a pleasant afternoon of reading, confined to his wheelchair, in his apartment in Manhattan. But a dark and terrible force is about to turn his world upside down. And it is that no one can escape the destructive power of Phonorama…

Red Fried District

• Flip van der Kuil / Stephan Miras
• The Netherlands, 2021
• 2 min.

A freshly fried Croquette wakes up in a filthy fast food restaurant’s wall-dispenser cubicle. Surprised by her newly discovered surroundings the Croquette takes it all in. She sees on the wall many other tasty snacks in their own cubicle. There’s a frikandel, a hamburger, and a spring roll among others. They all are dancing and showing off their sexy and delicious sides.

When a customer walks in the Croquette instantly knowns their purpose in life and starts dancing to grab their attention. Banging from the next door stops Croquette. An angry looking Cheese Soufflé is glaring in. It is now very apparent this is no longer a friendly game but rather a snack-off!

Competing to be the chosen snack the Croquette and the Cheese Soufflé one-up each other with their moves. The battle is fierce with each snack getting more and more saucy while the customer struggles to make a choice. In the end the fierce Cheese Soufflé wins out over the inexperienced Croquette. Like clockwork though as one Cheese Soufflé is eaten another fresh one is placed into the same cubicle.

The new soufflé wakes up like the Croquette and takes in their new surroundings. It observes the dancing snacks in the other cubicles and starts to shimmy as they do. That is until the ego-bruised Croquette gets their attention ensuring there will be another snack-off!

New Round, new opportunities for the Croquette, but now she is the experienced snack.

The Sausage Run

• Thomas Stellmach
• Germany / Belgium, 2021
• 9 min.

The film tells the tragic story of a little lamb with the help of multiple Zoetropes, loosely based on the well-known Grimm’s fairy tale ‘Little Red Riding Hood’.
On the subject of bribery, desire for meat and the ruthless treatment of animals, the fairy tale, inspired by Wilhelm Busch's vicious narrative style, is told in a completely new and humorous way with the help of Zoetropes.
Zoetropes are historical optical and rather primitive devices that display sequences of drawn images in motion. It’s an invention from 1834 and a forerunner of film technology.
The roles of the humans and animals are reversed. The human characters in the film are depicted as anthropomorphous animals. The animal in the story, the big bad wolf, is here a human being.
The family of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ consists of the mother sheep, the lamb as ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and a grandfather sheep. The forester and his wife are dogs with a soft spot for sausages. The wolf, a butcher, is a man with a serious problem - he has run out of sausages.