Bonkers Shorts

65 minutes

Welcome to the space of oddities. A selection of shorts that will make you think WTF!

Bonkers Shorts

Welcome, dear people, to the space of oddities! With evil and uncomfortable laughter, Kaboom presents a sumptuous selection that fully embraces the weird and the wild, the trippy and the twisted, the mad and the mental. Be baffled, yell WTF, cry with laughter ... Or just cry. This year's protagonists in the Bonkers selection include (amongst others): a farmer's bestiality, Barbie's climax, a Jewish farmhouse where slapstick reigns, a hilarious and gory murder mystery, motorized mayhem, a fascist with a hammer, a curious guy who presses all the buttons, a cat on an audition, Tasmanian backyard critters, and four people in an elevator!

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2022

Showing in this program

Elevator Alone

Elevator Alone

  • Anastasia Papadopoulou
  • Greece, 2021
  • 3 min.

Inspired by everyday life and by the difference in people's behavior when they are alone, in contrast to the socially acceptable behavior that individuals adopt when in public space and especially in the confined and always awkward setting of an elevator.

Go More Faster

Go More Faster

  • Eli Ayres
  • United States, 2021
  • 12 min.

Three interlocking vignettes of motorized mayhem.

KLIMAX

KLIMAX

  • Bea Hoeller
  • Germany, 2021
  • 2 min.

In KLIMAX, we explore the inner world of female lust, in order to redefine images of the female sex, already negatively connoted, and thus create new aesthetic associations of femininity. Our main protagonist, Barbie, goes through a process of transformation. She emerges like Alice in Wonderland into a magical world, a place of temptation and joy. It is a fantastic place that makes her change little by little to get rid of her stiffness and repression. Klimax is supposed to show how unique and beautiful every single woman's body is.

Patrick et les Boutons

Patrick et les Boutons

  • Julie Boulier / Romane Ganouna / Morgane Dumas / Thomas Dulong / Pauline Dukiel / Bertille David / Sandra Douville / Loris Jeacomine
  • France, 2020
  • 3 min.

"Discouraged by waiting for his coffee, Patrick enters a curious room filled with buttons.
Transported by the music, he is unaware of the consequences of each button he presses."

Re-Animal

Re-Animal

  • Ruben Garcera
  • Spain, 2021
  • 13 min.

References to Psycho, Seven,
Detective a la Poirot
Reminiscent of Aardman productions
Unmistakable message on meat industry/consumption
Hilarious spoof on the detective mystery genre
when the prey becomes the hunter

Selection Process

Selection Process

  • Carla Pereira
  • Estonia, 2020
  • 3 min.

A cat goes to a job interview where his skills will be valued by three mice. As the interview progresses the situation becomes increasingly uncomfortable for all involved.

Shlomo and the rabbi

Shlomo and the rabbi

  • David Julien
  • France, 2020
  • 9 min.

Winter 1895, in a small Ukrainian village, farmer Shlomo is expecting his tenth child. Thrown into a panic, he runs to the rabbi for some advice and discovers that, in life as in physics, everything relative.

The Tale of the Green Cheese

The Tale of the Green Cheese

  • Noah Erni
  • Switzerland, 2020
  • 4 min.

A farmer lives an idyllic life in the Swiss Alps, until one of his goats gives birth to a kid that looks more like the farmer than a goat.

Throat Notes

Throat Notes

  • Felix Colgrave
  • Australia, 2021
  • 8 min.
Tootoot & Their Magical Toot

Tootoot & Their Magical Toot

  • Milo Gluth
  • Australia, 2021
  • 2 min.

The fall of civilization leaves a desolate landscape where a single fascist hammers away at the constant resurgence of happiness.