Between no less than 42 Dutch animations, packed together in three programmes, the audience has to pick their favourite animation. Besides this audience award, HAFF launches the Grand Prix for Dutch animation, for the best professional production.
A Direct Film Farewell is an homage to celluloid and direct filmmaking. In the tradition of Len Lye and Norman McLaren, Oerd scratches a universe in which frivolous figures like butterflies float around between lines, drops and chemical reactions. A Direct Film Farewell is an energetic and lively gallery of color and shape explosions driven by a rousing piano recital.
A frog eats a grasshopper, a stork eats the frog, a crocodile eats the stork and the crocodile ends up as a pair of boots which a biker is wearing when a grasshopper flies into his face…
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CROPS is a stop motion film on centre pivot irrigation in the USA, using over 1000 circles, captured and cropped in Google Earth. Long water-sprinkler arms rotate around a central pivot.
Description: A 16mm stop motion animation film inspired by Tchaikovsky's tragic ballet "Swan Lake". The protagonists are handmade dolls found on flea-markets and in thrift stores. Synopsis: Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake set in a doll's house.The woman has probably pictured the evening differently.
Trapped in a relationship that's been going on far too long, two wild creatures have a domestic fight in slow motion.
'Hole' - a hand-drawn black and white animation - shows several subterranean landscapes. Places that only by human intervention can be illuminated.
A very infertile husband is so desperate to have a baby that he actually treats the liposuction fat from his wife as his baby.
Joey is a clumpsy bluebeakbird that lives in the beautifull jungle of Puerto d'Azu. Because of his small wings he can not fly. But when he finds the love of his live at the top of a tall tree he has to be inventive. Will he ever be able to reach the love of his live?
A short hallucinative film about making dreams and making sacrifice. "Hail! To all the souls-OHiding on rotting floors. Little did they know that they would make today."
When a minigolfer misses his most important shot he unleashes a chain reaction of bad, yet comical events.
While traveling by train, Loes van Dorp has been writing down her observations and thoughts.
This animation tells one of these trips in word and animated charcoal images. The very soft, almost whispering voice-over gives it a very intimate atmosphere. The vulnerability of the medium charcoal adds to this.
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Pandora’s Box (2012)
Korte film over de Daad van het kijken.
Een moderne versie van de Griekse mythe van de Doos van Pandora.
Muziek: Michiel van Dijk
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A janitor tries his best to keep the floor clean in a supermarket, when a wilde couple's kissing triggers his uncontrollable obsession.
De vertaling van muziek naar beeld, na een onderzoek naar visual-music.
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One spring morning animals wake-up from winter sleep and discover that forest has been turned into the city. Hedgehog has a brilliant idea how they all could survive in the big city. By helping people they could earn money! But what does it takes? Hedgehogs decide to get back forest and their real home...
A castaway finds himself washed ashore a beach at the foot of a towering city. His curiosity draws him into the urban expanse he finds before him. Whilst in the city he tries to get in touch with the society. However the characters he meets are strange, superficial and snippy, and after a series of unfortunate events he finds himself a castaway once more.
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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