The competition Dutch animation counts 49 films in the categories shorts, educational, leaders, commercials, clips and student films.
Whenever Ben spots a cute girl, all the musicians in his body come together for a parade in his nose. The saxophonist walks ahead, swinging through the tunnels of his body. What starts as a concert of upbeat funky jazz music, ends in a big sneeze - every time!Ben is ashamed and feels lonely all the time.. until that day he notices a cute girl sneezing so loud like he has never seen before.
A fish is crushed by a police car that drops from the sky and a TV-screen head with red lips. Absurdist leader for the Beeldbuis Film Festival in Zwolle.
Ketje gaat op vakantie bij zijn tante Virginie.
Herman, de nogal vreemde apotheker van het dorp, is daar al jaren op zoek naar de Diamant der Vogels.
Ketje vergezelt hem op zijn zoektocht, maar heeft meer oog voor een lelijke mot.
As a child Ketje spend his vacation in the village of his aunt Virginie. Herman, the local, rather strange pharmacist is desperately looking for the Diamond of the birds. Ketje joins him on his quest, but has more interest in an ugly moth.
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How To Catch a Bird is a stop motion short based on a childhood memory.
When I was eight, my dad taught me how to fish. He told me to take the worm off the hook after fishing, but I had no idea why. After fishing I forgot about the worm and left it dangling on the hook. If I only knew then what the consequence of this action would be.
A mother struggles with loneliness while her husband is away in the army. She has got something to ask him and needs courage to say it.
While looking for a missing limb on a junkyard, Jack discovers that what he really misses is a friend.
A young deformed boy lives as a side-show freak. When his father asks him to make a birthday-wish he starts to imagine...
Men in the Hills is an animation about beastly creatures living high up in de hills, shaking trees, catching chickens, eat coconut near the fire and slamming on drums. It's inspired by the reggae song 'Man in the Hills' by burning spear, describing the life of Rastafari's living in the hills of Jamaica.
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Six short ident for Dutch broadcaster NTR. The colon that is part of the NTR logo plays a major role in idents and other publications.
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A rollicking one minute journey through President Obama's July 2013 speech, in which he addressed the outrage caused by the trial of George Zimmerman. Zimmerman shot and killed an unarmed black teenager was acquitted of all charges.
One Small Steps shows the 1969 moon landing from a new perspective and even though it's fiction it questions the events as they were presented to mankind.
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Take a metaphorical peek inside the black hole of insecurity.
A man driven insane by the loss of his wife finds an unexpected solution.
A visualisation of the longing of a person to share his positive energy and love in the summer with the the person he wants to share the night with. Lulu Wang edited a book about love, in poetry, she asked me to make the film insired by the rap,
a surprisingly ultrashort racemovie
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On her way for a simple grocery, a girl literally has to struggle through her fellowbeings. Some of those people tend to leave a mark, but only one person leaves a mark that sticks.
The screen is a trampoline on which people and animals frolic. From under the trampoline pad we watch, amused, until things take an unexpected turn…
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‘Voltalogy in 2 minutes’ tells the new Volta corporate story.
It shows the creation of a ‘top-dog’, that for anyone who wants one, will be another kind of dog. Surprisingly enough this process of creation has a lot of interfaces with the positioning process. The Volta process of creating a new dog exists of making choices, positioning sharply and add top-design and top-communication.
A girl and boy on separate sides of the world (NY & Amsterdam) both lead fantastical lives but are incapable of meeting. The film is loosely based on a Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner sketch where Wile E. paints a tunnel on a rock that the Roadrunner passes through.
It's made using my own technique of projecting onto paper and then cutting out portions of the film to illustrate the hyperreal mediums that skew our vision.
The characters exist in their own hyperreal worlds, oblivious to the fact that their surroundings are merely fictionalised. Yet they still doggedly try to meet, to break away from their 'painted tunnels'.
Wile E. serves as a deconstruction of hyperreal drama in a cinematic format. Numerous tropes of the cinematic language that usually goes unquestioned are identified and made as visible as possible whilst still retaining an engaging veneer.
The edges of the screen become observable, the screen floats within it’s own frame of reference. Music and image are separated from speech to distinguish which one does what. The music itself is cheaply manipulative and the 3 part basic structure of introduction, disagreement and conclusion is strikingly clear. Even the narrative itself is an absurdist exploitation of elementary filmmaking.
Yet even when everything is visually and aurally laid on a platter, the audience will fight to ignore something they cannot compute and will instead settle on engaging with the basic premise that it’s just a film.
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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