Nancy Denney-Phelps: Eight Animated Films That Changed My Life

70 minutes
Nancy Denney-Phelps: Eight Animated Films That Changed My Life

If Gal Gadot ever resigns from being Wonder Woman, we have the perfect successor: Nancy Denney-Phelps. As an animation historian and journalist, she is the most wondrous teacher anyone could wish for. In her curated program she wants you to discover eight films that changed her life!

This program celebrates the newest Kaboom Award, the yearly Nancy Award! The winner gets a wine tasting with Nancy during Kaboom Animation Festival 2022.  

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2020-2021

Showing in this program

Angry Man

Angry Man

  • Anita Killi
  • Norway, 2009
  • 20 min.

A film about secrets that shouldn't be secret. Taking on the difficult topic of domestic violence, Norwegian director Anita Killi explores the dynamics that lead to abuse in families, and throws a healing light on a situation that too often remains hidden in the shadows. 

Borderline 1 + 2

Borderline 1 + 2

  • Monique Renault / Ellen Meske
  • The Netherlands, 1981
  • 5 min.

This animation poses two questions. Is there equality in similar jobs for men and women? And what do the women see behind the fence, that sets them off laughing?

Brutus

Brutus

  • Svetlana Filippova
  • Russia, 2014
  • 12 min.

Brutus always glanced into human eyes only for a moment and immediately turned away so as not to see a change, to keep what he was given and carry away what he received. Nobody knows better than dogs how fast people’s affections can change.
"It is a pity that we, the dogs, we cannot talk about anything with people, otherwise we would teach them to recognize the smell of good and evil"

Fetch

Fetch

  • Nina Paley
  • United States, 2002
  • 4 min.

A man plays fetch with his dog, only to have both him and his dog mired in a series of optical illusions.

Girls Night Out

Girls Night Out

  • Joanna Quinn
  • United Kingdom, 1986
  • 6 min.

Raucous comedy following quiet Welsh housewife Beryl on a birthday treat to a ‘ladies only’ night at a local pub, where she encounters the evening’s entertainment... a male stripper.

Teat Beat of Sex Episodes 1-3

Teat Beat of Sex Episodes 1-3

  • Signe Baumane
  • United States / Italy / Latvia, 2007
  • 4 min.

In two-minute episodes, a woman reveals her most secret thoughts on the most intimate matters.

When the Day Breaks

When the Day Breaks

  • Wendy Tilby / Amanda Forbis
  • Canada, 1999
  • 9 min.

A rooster has his last biscuit for breakfast and goes grocery shopping. A pig prepares her breakfast and discovers she needs more milk. Their paths cross, a lemon falls into the sewer, and both lives are changed. With deft humour and finely rendered detail, When the Day Breaks illuminates the links that connect our urban lives, while evoking the promise and fragility of a new day.

Words, Words, Words

Words, Words, Words

  • Michaela Pavlátová
  • Czech Republic, 1991
  • 7 min.

Michaela Pavlátová's Oscar-nominated short takes place in a café where all sorts of people sit at tables and talk. They communicate not with words but via an animated 'language' of their own - and thus we can eavesdrop easily on their conversations, and those who might have been strangers are no longer so.