Ever seen the film Deep Impact? That comet hit hard! Well, Kaboom Animation Festival is here to tell you that animation films can also have an impact. We just don't hope a destructive one... These socially engaged shorts will leave their mark while tackling themes as the environment, sexuality, oppression, capitalism, greed, plastic surgery and many more.
The second part of a trilogy that started with White Tape (2010), Black Tape explores the theme of domination. Michelle & Uri Kranot's short shows how, in an entangled tango, the victim and victimiser dance, occupying the frame and the space between brushstrokes. It is based on news and documentary footage, exploring the implications of life under occupation.
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A chromophobe army invades a harmless town, wiping all colour out. Luckily, resistance appears in the shape of a scarlet jester who restores the reign of colour using his chromatic trickery. Chromophobia - an unmistakable and universal political allegory - meant Raoul Servais' international breakthrough and is a prime example of his antimilitarism that emerged as one of the key themes throughout his work.
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Four people each tell the story of their first time. All their stories have one thing in common: it's never like the first time! Based on documentary interviews.
In this tale of lost innocence a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit. Its magical abilities lead to riches. The vintage children's book style is inspired by a selection of 1950s educational stickers that director Run Wrake found in a thrift store. A retro and adult fairytale.
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About the greenhouse effect, commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Environment.
Supervenus is a timely critique on modern beauty standards in which a plastic surgeon creates a new goddess of beauty, or isn't he?
Women are lucky, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous history lesson and educative animated anatomy class, you can discover how the organ has been misrepresented in the past and why Sigmund Freud is the Number One enemy of the clitoris.
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In the voiceover for this animated short, a young woman attempts to describe herself, casting her life in the ideal light that society expects. The film’s imagery, however, tells a different story, poignantly illustrating the intense anxiety that comes with the quest for perfection and the pursuit of happiness. A film that’s both funny and moving, and above all, profoundly human.
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A Vietnamese girl grows up in a European town. As she gets used to what it means to be strange and at home at the same time, her family inevitably heads towards a fatal decision. Who will leave – who will stay? Whose home is where?
Trusts and Estates is a hand-drawn animated satire adapted from a conversation overheard in a Santa Monic restaurant in 2011. Four lawyers engage in a bantering dinner conversation that quickly devolves into a grotesque and brutal comedy of cruelty, while depiction the hypocrisy of white-collar elitism.
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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