Kijkshock! shows 13 short, experimental, sometimes absurd animation films with live music by a group of five musicians. These will include premieres of the new films of Vinex Productions, Paul and Menno de Nooijer and eddie d. There will also be a couple of classics: Willem Bon's film experiments from 1932 and Fernand Léger's Ballet Mécanique (1924). 

This program screened as part of HAFF 2004

Showing in this program

Ballet Mécanique

• Fernand Léger / Dudley Murphy
• France, 1924
• 14 min.

Uncanny presages as a mechanical dance.

Beat

• Sjeng Schupp / Michiel van Dijk
• The Netherlands, 2002
• 4 min.

Sound and image together form a rhythm box.

Cloud in Trousers

• Kilian Dellers
• Switzerland, 1982
• 4 min.

Twelve pictures develop one after the other.

Is er Overeenkomst Tusschen Klank, Rhythme en Kleurafwisseling?

• Willem Bon
• The Netherlands, 1932
• 4 min.

Rhetorical question and a rhetorical answer. Music by Frans Vuursteen.

Jelly

• Jasper de Clercq
• The Netherlands, 2001
• 2 min.

Coping with the traumatic experience with jellyfishes. Music Jasper de Clercq.

Kleur- en Vormafwisseling op ‘Choo-choo’ Jazz

• Willem Bon
• The Netherlands, 1932
• 4 min.

Color and form change to choo choo jazz. Music Guus Janssen.

Loops Light

• Sjeng Schupp / Michiel van Dijk
• The Netherlands, 2003
• 4 min.

Adaptation of earlier film Loops.

Morphology

• Sjeng Schupp / Michiel van Dijk
• The Netherlands, 2004
• 2 min.

Improvisation of a still life in motion.

One Herman

• Sjeng Schupp / Michiel van Dijk
• The Netherlands, 2004
• 4 min.

Two Hermans are better than one...

Test One Two

• Paul de Nooijer / Menno de Nooijer
• The Netherlands, 2004
• 4 min.

The test of a sound equipment starts as yelling hysteria but turns into a dazzling song.

The Hitchhiker

• Sjeng Schupp
• The Netherlands, 2003
• 5 min.

A man hitches a ride with his own fate.