Act of Creation
A political story about the Soviet invasion of Poland based on the painting "Act of Creation ... the Union" by Slawusa Polonusa.
Midnight Madness
90 minutes
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KLIK!'s #1 audience favorite returns! Surrender yourself to your hosts Mathijs Stegink and Luuk van Huet. Let them bewilder you with the most bizarre, wondrous, and unhinged animated shorts.
They will guide you through a program that contains the strangest in contemporary animation. You won’t know what happened to you. We promise. Just keep repeating: “It's only a movie! It's only a movie! It's only a movie…”
Disclaimer: Neither the KLIK! Foundation, nor hosts Mr. Stegink and Mr. Van Huet are responsible for any kind of damaging effect Midnight Madness might have on your brain.
This program screened as part of KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2014
Showing in this program
All the king’s horses
A figure falls.
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Animation School Dropout
When animation makes everything possible, should there be rules in the way stories are told?
Art Student (Let’s Get Naked)
There is nothing quite like art school. So much creativity, so many artistic voices, so much nudity...Honestly, there was a surprising amount of nudity.
Bluebillgurgle
The Bluebillgurgle was written by Dutch poet C. Buddingh' when he was in a sanatorium for Tuberculosis. It has become the Dutch equivalent of the Jabberwocky and as such deserves its own animation.
Brown
Dutch writer Simon Carmiggelt unleashes chocolate and poop colored mayhem upon the nation.
cactus boy
In the desert, strange creatures play to pass the time...
Deep in the woods…
Little Red Ridinghood is chased through the woods by the Big Bad Wolf.
Eternal Friend
A succesful man tries to get the one thing he can’t get, a full head of hair.
Flash Back 3D
Before his death in a car accident, an old man gets flashbacks of the sad, happy and miserable moments of his life.
Fruit Fruit
Unleash the fruits! Bananas, lemons, cranberries, oranges... all fighting, crushing, exploding, expanding and eating each others
Hallgrímur og Jeremy
Two boys discover violence. One discovers regret.
He Tries to Meet a Girl in a Bar
A look at romance's modern iteration.
HERO
One romantic night, a woman flirts with a man. Suddenly, they're being attacked by an unknown creature. They start on a cryptic adventure.
I am glad we can be honest about this
Murder, vengeance, lust and truth tear apart a family. Father, mother, son and daughter: each of them battles against the demons of modern life in this manga inspired style animation.
I laugh because you bring your ass to the party
Popular, Fun, Mocking, Sampling, Fado, Joke.
Invasive Species
A farmer goes deep into uncharted territory in pursuit of a beast threatening his family.
Lesley the Pony Has an A+ Day!
Lesley the Pony goes on a fun-filled adventure through the town of Merryville while making lasting memories with his friend, The Duke.
Midterm
The stress and experience that come with taking exams.
Morphette
Morphette depicts the iconography that represented femininity from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s. Structured by using of a series visually dense scenes creating moving “paintings” replicated from the iconic academic paintings of the time. 3D readymade models are used in this film to represent the fact that these sexualized models are a part of our culture now
NO WAY
A man plants a seed in a pot. While watering and caring the seeds, a strange event triggers an unexpected result.
OCTOFORNIA
Penelope the penalized elephant has found himself in prison. Little does he know the true, sinister purpose of the prison
ONED – ONED
A campaign to reduce the euthanasia of Japanese pets.
Race
Street Race.
Supervenus
Supervenus is a timely critique on modern beauty standards in which a plastic surgeon creates a new goddess of beauty, or isn't he?
The bluebumgorgel
Based on a poem of Dutchman Cees Buddingh', written in 1943: the crazy story of self-invented beings.
There Was No Party!
A Corgi runs through various terrains and silly locations.
Those Young Years of Mine…
- The characters created by worldly acclaimed Primitivist painter by Maria Prymachenko (1908–1997) come to life and pay her a visit.
Tiong-Too-To
A man goes on a quest to find a magical apple to save his dying wife.
Trapped in the Womb
An expecting couple sits in their home library to listen to a Mozart record with the hopes that the classical music will benefit their unborn child. Slowly, however, it becomes apparent that the inside of the womb sounds very little like Mozart at all.
twin_kle
How I wonder what you are.I mean, people say you're a huge ball of hydrogen, exploding under its own gravity, but people say all sorts off things.
VEGE WAR
Two kids start a vegetable war in the middle of their mothers home cooked meal.
Weird Healing
On a distant planet, Pim and Jiji investigate a laboratory, in search for a terrorizing monster.
Zeus: The Origin
Back to the origin of the Greek Mythology: from the Chaos as the beginning of the Universe, to the rise of Zeus.
