Midnight Madness

100 minutes
Midnight Madness

Those films that make you go, “What the flying fuck were these people thinking/sniffing/smoking?” And, “Where can we get some more of that good stuff?” To share this wonderful feeling of alienation, bewilderment, and delight, we present you with the very weirdest the animation world has produced over the years. If you’re brave enough to venture into a program that collects the damned, the strange, and the damned strangest from the world of animation, you’ll never look at the medium in the same way ever again... Just keep repeating: “It’s only a movie! It’s only a movie! It’s only... a movie?”

This program screened as part of KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival 2013

Showing in this program

Andreas & Christina | Wedumentary

Andreas & Christina | Wedumentary

  • Aristarchos Papadaniel
  • Greece, 2012
  • 4 min.

A cartoon animated humoristic "wedding documentary" of Andreas and Christina's love story.

Baby, I Love You.

Baby, I Love You.

  • Faiyaz Jafri
  • United States, 2012
  • 2 min.

A young girl is confronted by her dark side.

Elysee Palace

Elysee Palace

  • Denis de Lapparent
  • France, 2013
  • 2 min.

drama at ELYSEE PALACE

Emilia

Emilia

  • Tsai Yu-Jhen
  • Taiwan, 2013
  • 7 min.

One day in the cold winter, a little girl named Emilia discovered a magic bakery unexpectedly. To complete her wishes, she decided to get into the bakery. When the little girl's dream came true, everything turned out wonderfully. However, Emilia didn't realize that there was a fact beyond the sweet scene.

Flower Kids episode 1: On the beach

Flower Kids episode 1: On the beach

  • Henning Basler
  • Germany, 2013

The Flower Kids Bl

Fruit Fly

Fruit Fly

  • Eren Kocabasi
  • United States, 2012
  • 3 min.

A boy gets hit on the head by a flying head. The head dies, the boy burries it and a giant plant appears with a purple fruit.

Kamazutra

Kamazutra

  • Hervé Lopez
  • France, 2012
  • 4 min.
Like

Like

  • Lotta Sweetliv
  • The Netherlands, 2012

Lotta Sweetliv herself introduces Lin, a small catlike figure who sings to you while she dances in an ever-changing colorful world.

Mop Loves Bucket

Mop Loves Bucket

  • Morgan Twiston Davies
  • United Kingdom, 2013

A filthy little film

Pargu

Pargu

  • Sean Grounds
  • Canada, 2012
  • 3 min.

Two kids shows, 'Booh Bah' and 'Yo Gabba Gabba' helped to inspire Pargu. Neither show teaches kids very much, and if anything, they teach the most rudimentary lessons repeated over and over until they become nonsense. Pargu is a comment on the way that these shows flash colours and empty images to keep kids quiet.

Performance

Performance

  • Masha Sedyaeva
  • Russia, 2012

A man is giving a performance.

Red Colored Bridge

Red Colored Bridge

  • Keiichi Tanaami
  • Japan, 2012
  • 5 min.

The bridge as the channel between worlds: between the living and the dead, between male and female, between sacred and profane.

Say Hi

Say Hi

  • Hyeonjong Kim
  • South Korea, 2013
  • 5 min.

Sharing of human hearts through modern conveniences.

Service Station

Service Station

  • Greco Henriquez
  • Chile, 2013

A musical animated short film that shows how the modern life can destroy the simple things.

Swallowing a Single-Engine Airplane

Swallowing a Single-Engine Airplane

  • Marão / David Mussel / Fernanda Valverde / Giuliana Danza / Jonas Brandão / Pedro Eboli / Gabriel Bitar / Ze Alexandre
  • Brazil, 2013
  • 8 min.

True fact: a french man has consumed metal since he was a kid in a daily basis.He disassembled, cut-up, and consumed bicycles, shopping carts, televisions and a Cessna 150 airplane.

The Carousel Family

The Carousel Family

  • Te-Yu Liu
  • Taiwan, 2013
  • 5 min.

This animation is to commemorate my childhood memory, the excitement and satisfaction when I rode on the merry-go-round for the first time. It keeps rolling inside me from that time, and reminds me to enjoy the endless fun of daily life.

The Muse

The Muse

  • Latefa Wiersch
  • Germany, 2012
  • 2 min.

The Muse, Stop-Motion-Video, 2012, 3,31 min.In the video, we see the muse in her livingroom. She`s basically wasting her time by reading magazines, nibbling grapes and having wine. Finally, she`s lying down on the sofa for a little nap. At this point, the metamorphosis is taking place: the sofa is becoming animate: it`s starting to move and grow and swamping the muses body.Then the muse and the sofa are becomimg one, and the transformation is going on, until, in the end, the artwork is born out of the muses bottom. In the work, the muse plays the role of a stereotype female artist being a beautiful, dreamy and passive person, just one of the stereotype females which are so often shown in the mass media. The transformation of her body ironically reflects the process of producing artworks and shows it as something very easygoing - the work is simply born without any effort.

The Origin Of a Myth: Alien Abduction

The Origin Of a Myth: Alien Abduction

  • Jason Petrovitch
  • United States, 2013
  • 3 min.

A series of bizarre scenarios culminates in the creation of the myth of alien abduction

The Sexual Life of Dinosaurs

The Sexual Life of Dinosaurs

  • Delphine Delphine Hermans
  • Belgium, 2012
  • 2 min.

It's springtime

Two Fingers – Vengeance Rhythm

Two Fingers – Vengeance Rhythm

  • Chris Ullens
  • United Kingdom, 2012
  • 3 min.

This is the story of a very very angry teddy bear...

Vicuna Rencoroso

Vicuna Rencoroso

  • Marc de Leeuw / Iteke Hemkes
  • The Netherlands, 2012
  • 3 min.

A highly improbable chain of events leads to explosive conflict on a seemingly peaceful planet...

Welcome to the Zoo

Welcome to the Zoo

  • Ines Christine Geißer / Kirsten Carina Geißer
  • Germany, 2013

A girl stumbles into the mountain zoo. Bad mooded she runs off and meets the animals which through their performance can brighten her mood. On top of the mountain she flips out with the result that she tumbles back down the mountain.