1st Day & Next Minute
An explicit punkrush adventure into a gender fluid-person's zone of desires where lust & responsibility is constantly dividing & demanding needs. In Sara Koppel's hypnotic and trippy toon you'll definitely get some tongue.
Provocative Shorts 1: Punk It Louder
80 minutes
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Animation, like punk, is best when it refuses to behave. This programme offers a hypnotic middle finger to normative systems and aesthetics.
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
A Border Guard and His Dog
In crude drawings we pay a visit to a guard stationed at the border between Belarus and Poland.
Jukebox
An up-tempo party piece with Xerox, paint and found-sound montage. Jukebox is an ecstatic stream-of-consciousness wonder through a world of paranoia, fear and joy by the late Run Wrake.
Margarethe 89
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. Through the regime's days may well be numbered, the Stasi informants are more present than ever. Lucas Malbrun's rebellious short is made entirely with felt-tip pens and is a sharp political tale about repression.
Never Drive a Car When You’re Dead
A suicidal man stumbles over a long forgotten piano. Music leads him from his dull existence out into the bustling city life. There he plays a last funeral march to all the dead-beat figures on the sidewalk. A darkly funny tale about life and death in our contemporary urban culture.
Sientje
Winner of the 1997 Golden Calf for Best Short Film, Christa Moesker's witty and rebellious debut features a little girl getting very upset after a quarrel with her mother. Raaaaaage!
Ubu
Ink splashes, smudges, guttural sounds and lewd violence: an arsenal entirely fit for adapting Alfred Jarry’s late 19th century theatrical fusillade.
Voiceless
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 beats and drugs make him feel free. One day, a baby's gaze changes his world perception. Samuel Patthey's award-winning short is a reminder of the power of hand-drawn animation and shows us that however aimeless life can seem, there's always that small spark that can alter our lives for the better.
