Rockets & Romance

80 minutes
Rockets & Romance

Space seems like a cold, lonely place for a species that craves love like humankind. Or is it a perfect place for love and sex?

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2019

Showing in this program

458NM

458NM

  • Ilija Brunck / Tom Weber / Jan Bitzer
  • Germany, 2007
  • 6 min.

A romantic meeting of two mechanical snails in the moonlight.

Air Vif

Air Vif

  • Pierre Grillère
  • France, 2016
  • 3 min.

The absence of the other one, the empty space, the memories sometimes painful. A parable on the path of love.

Black

Black

  • Tomasz Popakul
  • Poland / Japan, 2016
  • 14 min.

Story of "Black" is about pair of astronauts trapped on orbital space station because of nuclear war that ran very fast on the earth below.

Contact

Contact

  • Katy Wang
  • United Kingdom, 2017
  • 7 min.

Stranded on a distant planet, a lonely astronaut sends out a signal in search of human contact.

Deep Space

Deep Space

  • Bruno Tondeur
  • Belgium, 2015
  • 7 min.

Brandon is given his first intergalactic mission: finding a new intelligent species. For months he will live a strange experience on a planet with surprising customs. Mentally and physically, the astronaut will have to resist with all his heart.

Intolerance 1

Intolerance 1

  • Phil Mulloy
  • United Kingdom, 2000
  • 11 min.

A strange object is found deep in outer space. The consequences are catastrophic.

It’s a Date

It’s a Date

  • Zachary Zezima
  • United States, 2016
  • 7 min.

Everyone is an alien at first.

Lea Porcelain – The Love

Lea Porcelain – The Love

  • Jakob Schmidt
  • Germany, 2019
  • 3 min.

"THE LOVE" is a dark and dystopic animated music video about a wasted couple that gets lost in a dreamy desert scene.

Somewhere

Somewhere

  • Nicolas Ménard
  • United Kingdom, 2013
  • 6 min.

Somewhere, our limbs lost in the distance.