Dutch Delights

90 minutes
Dutch Delights

High flyers from the Lowlands, this homegrown talent displays a wide range of skills, techniques, and subjects — some from close to home and some from very far away indeed. Enjoy these Dutch animators' striking shorts, music videos, and commissioned works.

This program screened as part of KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2015

Showing in this program

Andrej

Andrej

  • Julia Veldman
  • The Netherlands / United States, 2015
  • 3 min.

Andrej Ivanovitsj has a bewildering experience when the water he spits into suddenly turns black. Instantly his whole world is upside-down, his dog can fly and he feels like a dog. But when Andrej Ivanovitsj decides to drink the pitch black water something unexpected happens...

Bird of Prey

Bird of Prey

  • Jelle Brunt / David de Rooij
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 2 min.

In deze ultrakorte spaghetti western worden twee cowboys door een waardevolle tas gedreven tot een standoff. Zwetend houden zij de handen op de revolvers terwijl spanning en de brandende zon stijgt. Ondertussen wacht een watertandende gier op de onvermijdelijke afloop...

Bleep Bloop – Feel the Cosmos

Bleep Bloop – Feel the Cosmos

  • Evert van der Veen
  • The Netherlands, 2014
  • 2 min.

Feel the cosmos visualizes the sound of Californian based music producer Beep Bloop in which it appears that animals are speaking the notes.

Cat meets Dog

Cat meets Dog

  • Paul Driessen
  • Canada / Belgium / The Netherlands, 2015
  • 11 min.

An anthropomorphic cat and dog, their images divided over 4 panels, receive an invitation for a romantic rendez­vous.

When they eventually arrive at their destination after multiple moments of near-­interaction the lovers don’t turn out to be whom we thought they were.

At the end it’s their abandoned spouses who meet and reveal the naked truth.

Clipphanger: D, t or dt?

Clipphanger: D, t or dt?

  • Dario van Vree / Hilde Buiter
  • The Netherlands, 2015

‘Snap je dit?’
‘Jaha, je snapt dit.’
Hé, da’s gek. Het is ‘je snapT’, maar ‘snap je’, snap je? Dat is een uitzondering: als ‘je’ ACHTER de persoonsvorm komt, dan valt de ‘t’ weer weg. Snap je dit, of vind je dit gek? Misschien is het ook gek, maar het is wel fijn als je dit onthoudt. Of toch even spiekt.

Clipphanger: What Are The Hiccups?

Clipphanger: What Are The Hiccups?

  • Niels de Haar
  • The Netherlands, 2015

An educational animation in the Clipphanger series about the hiccups

Clipphanger: Why Do We Scream When We’re Scared?

Clipphanger: Why Do We Scream When We’re Scared?

  • Erik Butter
  • The Netherlands, 2015

Short and fun explainimation about why we scream when we're scared.

Deadly Drive-in Disaster

Deadly Drive-in Disaster

  • Arjan Wilschut
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 2 min.

SOLA POWERS secret agent jumps into action when her UFO alarm is activated. In pursuit of a flying saucer she arrives at a drive-in movie theater playing a 3D flick about a UFO invasion. The spectators have no clue that they are now themselves being preyed on by aliens. One by one they are sucked into the flying saucer and deep frozen. Sola uses cinematic tools to defeat the ruthless Martians.

Divine Office

Divine Office

  • Roelof van den Bergh
  • The Netherlands, 2014
  • 3 min.

An office worker tries to repair his flickering neon light, but his failing is rewarded by sneers of his colleagues.
He complains about the lamp to the coffee lady on her rounds, but misses out on his coffee, which again results in being laughed at.
When the coffee lady returns to replace his lamp, for which she needs his assistance, sneers turn into envy…

Full Feather Jacket

Full Feather Jacket

  • Liz el Saadany
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 2 min.

Clumsy seagull Manfred enjoys his humble work as a cleaner at the Air Force base. But when he accidentally kills a member of the seagull troops, Manfred is forced to take his place. Unwillingly Manfred embarks on a highly dangerous mission, that he is not prepared for...

Just a Biopic

Just a Biopic

  • Renske Cuijpers
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 2 min.

Just a Biopic is een geanimeerde biografie over 'één' uit een gesloten gemeenschap in onze hedendaagse maatschappij.
We volgen één van velen, zien zijn leven en waar hij uiteindelijk terecht is gekomen. Dat niet iedereen dezelfde taal spreekt en in hetzelfde milieu is opgegroeid wordt hier wel duidelijk.

Lucy

Lucy

  • Evert de Beijer
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 9 min.

Evert de Beijer's final film was a computer animated short dedicated to the rich history of our world. Here, Lucy, a four-million-year old lady, comes alive in the imagination of a boy when he visits a paleological exhibition with his parents. She takes him on a short, colourful excursion to the prehistory, populated by exotic prototypes in the early evolution.

Never Sleep Again

Never Sleep Again

  • Bouwine Pool
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 2 min.

A little bird doesn't want to go to sleep because he finds life way too interesting

Red-end and the Factory Plant

Red-end and the Factory Plant

  • Robin Noorda / Bethany de Forest
  • The Netherlands / Belgium, 2015
  • 15 min.

Redback has to find red peppers in the wood and discovers a bio-industry of carnivorous plants, but gets captured. With the help of Gold fly Red-end sets Redback free by sabotaging the meat-factory.

Sphrulite

Sphrulite

  • Lotta Sweetliv
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 4 min.

In a circle of events, Lotta Sweetliv, as a half woman half animal character, shows how light & energy transform in
endless ways and never get lost.

The Cycle of Life

The Cycle of Life

  • Katinka Baehr
  • The Netherlands, 2015

Lieuwes cat died. He deals with it in a wonderfull way.

The Kik – Cupido

The Kik – Cupido

  • Natali Voorthuis
  • The Netherlands, 2014
  • 2 min.

The main character has been hit by Cupid's arrow and he falls in love with a girl. Unfortunately she's already in love with someone else. This makes him question Cupid's ways and doubts his existence.

The Prodigy – Wild Frontier

The Prodigy – Wild Frontier

  • Mascha Halberstad
  • The Netherlands, 2015
  • 3 min.

While camping in the woods Nelson discovers the true meaning of dualism.
WILD FRONTIER is a music video for The Prodigy.