25 Ways to Quit Smoking
The perilous road to kicking the habit is explored in twenty-six vignettes that include various professionals and contraptions.
Chemicals, Caffeine & Everything in Between
75 minutes
Since the dawning of mankind, humans have found a way of enhancing
lives with (illicit) substances, both natural and synthetic. Today,
chemicals are everywhere – whether its coffee, tea, alcohol, additives,
sugar or horse tranquilisers – somebody somewhere is indulging. So, what
exactly does this chemical dependency do to us?
This programme explores the pros and cons of different forms, dimensions and perceptions of drug use.
Also, apparently sugar is as addictive as crack. Who'da thunk it? *Sips 11th milkshake*
This program screened as part of KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2018
Showing in this program
Breakfast on the Grass
It takses 99 % of work and 1 % talent, to create a masterpiece.
Colaholic
"Colaholic" is a documentary, a romantic comedy, and a memoir of a person who drinks way too much soda.
Life Smartphone
Staring at the Smart phone all the time, people are gradually alienating themselves from the normal life and people nearby. This film, Life Smartphone, with its satirical and humorous style, serves to depict the current social situation and give people a chance to be introspective.
Nighthawk
A badger lies motionless on a local road. A police patrol approaches the body in the dark. They soon realise that the animal is not dead; the badger is dead drunk! When the police attempt to drag the creature off the road, he wakes up and things take a strange turn.
Nuggets
Kiwi tastes a golden nugget. It's delicious.
Scabies
A man is smoking. Something itches him and he scratches it. Then this repeats elsewhere. He starts to scratch himself harder and harder and at different places. Everywhere, from his sleeves, coat, trouser legs, small people start to fall out, and the man can no longer crush them. He just keeps scratching himself like a madman and this scratching becomes an agony. The big man starts to drown in his suit and fall to the ground. Swarms of little men keep flooding out. Finally, the last ones come out and scatter around. Only a big suit is left on the ground.
Soif
A woman plays out her existence on the screen of her life. Alcohol is the essence of her being. She imbibes her youth and becomes completely absorbed by the desire to satisfy her thirst. Moving from parties to binge drinking, pleasure to distress, joy to delirium, she lets herself be lulled by the undulating waves of bottles.
The Comic That Frenches Your Mind
A drug-muddled mind tries to think back to its origins and is helped along the way by a mysterious lighthouse and childhood icons. Morphing beasts, junkies, and Davy Crockett tourists take the screen among other puzzling characters in this twisting pencil line animation.
The Night I Dance With Death
Jack is having a party with some friends. Disused, he decides to take a psychedelic drug. With a lighter mind, he enjoys the moment, his belly rejecting his visceral anguish as the evening progress. Arrives the time when he confronts a too big anxiety of which he cannot get rid of.
The Ogre
A giant complexed by his size refrains from eating terrified at the idea of revealing his ogresque character and thus compromising his place in society.
At a business banquet, his true nature will be put to the test.
