Provocative Shorts 1: Punk It Louder

80 minutes

Animation, like punk, is best when it refuses to behave. This programme offers a hypnotic middle finger to normative systems and aesthetics.

Provocative Shorts 1: Punk It Louder

Animation, like punk, is best when it refuses to behave and when it pushes against what we've come to expect. We're not saying we should all be anarchists, but sometimes a rebellious spirit goes a long way. From radical, disruptive, DIY-styled works to stories about defiance, rage or the aimlessness of it all, these films offer hyperbolic middle fingers to normative systems and aesthetics. It's impossible to resist the resistance!

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2025

Showing in this program

1st Day & Next Minute

1st Day & Next Minute

  • Sara Koppel
  • Denmark, 2017
  • 2 min.

"1st DAY & NEXY MINUTE"
Is an explicit punkrush adventure
into a gender fluid-persons zone of desires
Where lust & responsibility
is constantly dividing & demanding needs.

A Border Guard and His Dog

A Border Guard and His Dog

  • Pablo Martínez Ballarín
  • Poland, 2023
  • 3 min.

A visit to the border between Poland and Belarus.

Jukebox

Jukebox

  • Run Wrake
  • United Kingdom, 1994
  • 4 min.
Margarethe 89

Margarethe 89

  • Lucas Malbrun
  • France, 2023
  • 18 min.

Leipzig, 1989. Margarethe, a young punk opposed to the East German regime, is detained in a psychiatric hospital. She dreams of breaking out to join the man she loves - a punk musician named Heinrich. Though the regime's days may well be numbered, the Stasi informants are more present than ever.

Never Drive a Car When You’re Dead

Never Drive a Car When You’re Dead

  • Gregor Dashuber
  • Germany, 2009
  • 9 min.

A funeral march trough a big city shows life and death in contemporary urban culture.

Sientje

Sientje

  • Christa Moesker
  • The Netherlands, 1997
  • 4 min.
Ubu

Ubu

  • Geoff Dunbar
  • United Kingdom, 1978
  • 18 min.

Farting and swearing and violence – oh my! Albert Jarry’s controversial play translates beautifully to splattered inks in Geoff Dunbar’s award-winning animation.

Voiceless

Voiceless

  • Samuel Patthey
  • Switzerland, 2024
  • 15 min.

Dan is a young man who spends most of his time in his flat, always listening to electronic music. Outside, he feels disconnected and only finds solace in nightclubs, where techno music and drugs make him feel free. One day, a baby's gaze changes his world perception.