(OO)
Turning a runny nose into a great animation short, seems like a crazy ideo, but Seo-ro Oh pulls it off! Visualising (and maximalising) everyting that goes on in somebody's nostrils, (OO) is a surprisingly epic trip inside our body.
Provocative Shorts 2: O Body, Why Art Thou?
75 minutes
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A reminder that we may not always love the way our bodies behave or how they have taken shape, but what the hell ... we all poop, don't we?
Our bodies can be weird, messy, unpredictable - and sometimes downright embarrassing and disgusting. But whether it's an awkard boner, a compulsive disorder, an unknown bodily slime, or something as simple as a runny nose, these quirks make us human. This unapologetic and often surreal programme is a reminder that we may not always love the way our bodies behave or how they have taken shape, but what the hell ... we all poop, don't we?
This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2025
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Anal Juke ~Anal Juice~
Love sickness can lead to peculiar dreams. Everything revolves around defecating. A grating text set to pulsating music. Based on her own dream after breaking up with her boyfriend, Sawako Kabuki's (s)assy short is perhaps the best way of dealing with heartbreak.
Asparagus
A surreal masterpiece and an allegory of alienation, identity and female expression, Suzan Pitt's Asparagus is a candy-coloured journey through an absurdist dreamscape. Looking back, the 1979 experimental short is a monument in animation history, and the history of asparaguses.
Bodily Dysfunctions
We all have these awkward moments when our body does some really strange things, right? Right?! Aisha Madu's graduation short from 2014 is a humorous collection of such moments; when people find themselves in painful, awkward or plain absurd situations.
Body Beautiful
Beryl and her friends work in a Japanese factory in Wales. Beryl, who is a heavyset woman, keeps being harassed by her remorselessly macho supervisor, Vince. But soon the time comes to get even... Joanna Quinn's second short featuring her working-class heroine Beryl tackles modern society's beauty standards, celebrating bodies without shame.
Cottage Cheese
Ever discovered cottage cheese in your panties? Well, it's exactly what occurs to Mika. In search of answers, she undertakes a strange journey into her own vagina. Cottage Cheese is a slimy, bizarre and hilarious BA graduation film made at the Animation Department at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
Darkness, Light, Darkness
Arguably one of the most iconic claymations ever created, this Jan Švankmajer classic shows a human body gradually reconstructing itself in a small room. Playful and grotesque, repulsive and fascinating, it's Švankmajer at his most creative.
Lay Bare
"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances" (Oscar Wilde)
Lay Bare is a composite portrait of the human body - assembled from details captured by close-up photography of over five hundred men and women of all ages - revealing it as it is only rarely seen in the most intimate relationships we have with our family or our lovers: erotic and comic, beautiful and vulnerable.
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Sleep
Full breath ahead into the final sleep. A lullaby with closed eyes for a silent decline.
Trichotillomania
Dr. Google can be your friend, but also your enemy. Kelly Schiesswhol's personal short follows one girl's Google-search-gone wrong to find out why she can't stop pulling out her hair.
