Midnight Madness

120 minutes
Midnight Madness

If you’re already a bit bananas, our Midnight Madness screening is sure to send you over the edge. For KLIK’s #1 audience favorite, your hosts, Mathijs Stegink, Luuk van Huët, Tünde Vollenbroek and Lae Schäfer, will take you on a mind-boggling ride that’s not easily forgotten (or overcome). These nutters will guide you through a compilation of bizarre, wondrous, and batshit animated shorts that will make you go “WTF?!” — topped off with a crazy little dance.

This program screened as part of KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2016

Showing in this program

CHIM:ERA

CHIM:ERA

  • Taila Soliman
  • Brazil, 2015
  • 2 min.

Mrs. Conceição and her bonsai enter a chimerical journey to understand time.

CIS

CIS

  • Amelie Bjurenhed
  • Sweden, 2016

To be a real man in todays society is not easy this is a movie inspired by the male sexuality.

Enmog Renaissance

Enmog Renaissance

  • Farbod Ardebili
  • United States, 2015
  • 4 min.
Espresso

Espresso

  • Alexander Gratzer
  • Austria, 2015
  • 5 min.

„Espresso“ is an animated short, splitted in two scenes and sets. in the first scene, a man is waiting in an urban cafe, in the second scene a woman is talking in a private living room.
Is that about hope?

FranTick

FranTick

  • Amanda Piller
  • Switzerland, 2015
  • 5 min.

On his untroubled way, an individual unexpectedly finds himself in a precarious state. Gradually, he loses control of his ambition and himself.

Having No Choice

Having No Choice

  • Cheng Ming Hei / Wong Ka Chun / Liu Ho Yin / Lee Hiu Tung
  • Hong Kong, 2016

[PLEASE DO NOT COPY to long synopsis field - should remain hidden] The story is about dinosaurs which came to other people’s town to steal food in order to survive. Misunderstanding occurred in the situation, but the boy understood the problem and tried to help the dinosaur. This shows that for the sake of survival, there aren't so many options for you to choose, so you have to give up something.

He

He

  • Vasily Kiselev
  • Russia, 2016
  • 3 min.
Ivory Men and Cherry Boys

Ivory Men and Cherry Boys

  • Valerio Palmerini
  • Italy, 2016
Liminal Love

Liminal Love

  • Ray Ting / Jui Ting Liang
  • United States, 2016
  • 4 min.

This is an 3D animation with subjective, non-linear, overlapping dialogue in English and Chinese. The dialogue is almost the same in both languages. Through repeating images and conversations, the story illustrates my belief that people in love because they acknowledge they are lonely beings. Will humans feel more solitude if they love more?
Therefore, I name it LIMINAL LOVE.

Los Viejos – STATE OF AMNESIA

Los Viejos – STATE OF AMNESIA

  • Esteban
  • Mexico, 2016
  • 2 min.
Lost in Time

Lost in Time

  • Vince Collins
  • United States, 2016
Manoman

Manoman

  • Simon Cartwright
  • United Kingdom, 2015
  • 10 min.

When Glen attends primal scream class, he releases something from deep within that knows no limits.

RRRING RRRING!

RRRING RRRING!

  • Thomas Kneffel
  • Germany, 2015
  • 6 min.

The protagonist of RRRING RRRING! decides to call some of his friends, but everybody seems to be busy. With increasing desperation, he finally finds a way to stand up to them.

the little hamster

the little hamster

  • Jaroslava Osolotkina
  • Russia, 2016

[PLEASE DO NOT COPY to long synopsis field - should remain hidden on website]

This is small story about little hamster. Little hamster , which no one does anything wrong , are often afraid to even the simplest everyday things , but at the same time trying to create an atmosphere of friendliness , caring about the other. He is changing the world for the better.

The Odd Funeral

The Odd Funeral

  • Felix Swahn
  • Sweden, 2016
  • 13 min.

An old woman, a grandma is dying. She wishes to have her ashes spread in the Tatra mountains, the best place of her youth. Her wish is the beginning of an odd road movie to find a good spot for grandma after death. It´s a movie about dying, about reconciliation and about trust.

Theo in Amsterdam

Theo in Amsterdam

  • Samuel Windisch
  • Germany, 2016
  • 5 min.

Theo listens to his time distributor and makes a short trip to Amsterdam.

Triangulo

Triangulo

  • Mateo Amaral
  • Argentina, 2015
Walkin the Dog

Walkin the Dog

  • Tommy Robin
  • United Kingdom, 2015
What They Believe

What They Believe

  • Shoko Hara
  • Germany, 2016
  • 10 min.

The events portrayed in this movie are a collage of actual occurrences. Anecdotes of ambiguous love and truth. They assemble a world, where evangelical fanaticism has become an everyday insanity.