Opening Walk Utrecht

90 minutes

Kaboom 2025 is upon us! Start this year's festival with a visually creative city walk through Utrecht devoted to the power of moving images.

Opening Walk Utrecht

Kaboom 2025 is upon us! Start this year's festival with a visually creative city walk through Utrecht. As night falls, the city transforms - shop shutters roll down, streets quieten (or parties start), and hidden corners emerge from the shadows. But for Kaboom's opening, the city becomes a theatre, as we turn unexpected urban surfaces into movie screens, creating a one-of-a-kind cinematic journey through Utrecht. Follow the glow of the projector as we guide you from wall to wall, unveiling films that interact with their surroundings in surprising ways. It's part city tour, part film screening, and 100% animated magic!

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2025

Showing in this program

Art & Davey: The Housemate From Hell

Art & Davey: The Housemate From Hell

  • Kayne Mosch
  • The Netherlands, 2024
  • 3 min.

Art, a twenty-something year old student returns to his apartment after a long day of work. Only to find out that his stoner roommate, Davey, accidentally let a demon into their apartment. Now Art is faced with two problems: getting rid of actual satanic hellspawn, and dealing with a roommate too inconsiderate to help out in any meaningful way.

Catherine

Catherine

  • Britt Raes
  • Belgium / France, 2016
  • 11 min.

Catherine loves pets! But most of all, she loves her cat.
As she grows up, she can not connect with other people.
Her cat is her life, and little by little she grows up to be a crazy old cat lady…
Will she ever find friendship, or love?

Dog Bridge

Dog Bridge

  • Jorn Leeuwerink
  • The Netherlands, 2024
  • 2 min.

A sausage dog lets all kinds of animals walk all over him. A cat sees a business opportunity.

Larry

Larry

  • Takeshi Murata / Christopher Rutledge
  • United States, 2023
  • 3 min.

A dog looses grasp of its shape and time while balling like Shaq in this psychedelic animation.

MIMT

MIMT

  • Ted Wiggin
  • United States, 2024
  • 3 min.

A fable about animals giving chase between planes of existence.

Quota

Quota

  • Job / Joris & Marieke
  • The Netherlands, 2024
  • 2 min.

When every global citizen is required to have their CO2 emissions tracked, it makes little impact…that is, until
they discover the consequences of reaching their designated QUOTA.

Slug Life

Slug Life

  • Sophie Koko Gate
  • United Kingdom, 2018
  • 6 min.

We follow a day in the life of Tanya, a curious woman who has developed a taste for non human lovers.

The Refusers

The Refusers

  • Wiep Teeuwisse
  • The Netherlands, 2024
  • 2 min.

Dumped waste lies around two garbage containers. An old mattress laments, 'They say I’m dirty...' The objects share their stories. Then, an old paper dances beautifully, setting in motion a powerful change in how the waste perceives itself.