Shorts 3: The Future is Now

70 minutes
Shorts 3: The Future is Now

THE FUTURE IS NOW. Soon robots will automate creativity, so before
we’re replaced, enjoy a few toons made by humans about the tech that
will inevitably make us redundant. Heh. Fun!

This program screened as part of KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2018

Showing in this program

Bendito Machine VI – Carry On

Bendito Machine VI – Carry On

  • Jossie Malis
  • Spain / France, 2018
  • 13 min.

An inevitable and enigmatic bio-technological interweaving is just around the corner. What can go wrong?

Death Van

Death Van

  • Michael Enzbrunner
  • Canada, 2017
  • 6 min.

The fictitious space-rock duo DEATH VAN tours through a miniature world inhabited by surreal creatures that are haunted and terrorized by a menacing and mischievous entity.

Future Thoughts

Future Thoughts

  • Loek Vugs
  • The Netherlands, 2017
  • 2 min.

Future Thoughts is an experimental short film showing a collection of ideas about the near
future. Loek Vugs has a great interest for science, technology, architecture and the future.
For his graduation film he decided to combine all of these interests and show them all
together in one short mosaic story.

Geenie Reenie

Geenie Reenie

  • Andrew Onorato
  • Australia, 2017
  • 4 min.

Geenie Reenie and Dozen check some e-mails at home

Maikeulboudjan

Maikeulboudjan

  • Capucine Muller
  • Belgium / France / Hungary, 2018
  • 3 min.

Jean and Chantal are a pretty normal couple living a pretty normal life in a pretty normal neighborhood. Jean and Chantal love each other. Could a simple dish washing problem break their couple ?

Mind Invaders – Too Mad

Mind Invaders – Too Mad

  • Kilian Vilim
  • Switzerland, 2018
  • 4 min.

A mysterious sign appears and the residents of Cat City tremble in fear of an unknown terror. Something is coming to invade their minds…

Opal Waltz

Opal Waltz

  • Vincent Tsui
  • France / United States, 2017
  • 3 min.

Coming-of-age piece that explores the tense duality of adolescence through interactions between teenagers and balloons.

Republic of Grace

Republic of Grace

  • Shao Wea-Hao
  • Taiwan, 2018
  • 2 min.

Welcome to join Republic of Grace! This is an wonderful country. Here, pink is the representative color that symbolizes a bright future. There is no corruption and conflict, only fairness and flawless...

The Autopsy of Sven Svensson

The Autopsy of Sven Svensson

  • Hadas Coen / Shir Pakman
  • Israel, 2017
  • 5 min.

A pathologist’s daily routine is being interrupted when he encounters a body in his image.

The Box

The Box

  • Dusan Kastelic
  • Slovenia, 2017
  • 12 min.

You have probably heard of the phrase "To think outside of the box"?
Well, this is a story about such a box.
The box is full of miserable creatures.
One of those creatures doesn’t belong there.

He’s thinking outside of the box...

Undivided

Undivided

  • Araz Kelian
  • Lebanon, 2018
  • 4 min.

Trinity loses focus as her attention splits to virtual places. But she doesn’t notice that it’s not the only thing that splits.

WORD

WORD

  • Amos Mulder
  • The Netherlands, 2017
  • 7 min.

WORD! – a visual exploration of language in an alternate, post-factual universe. Quotes in the form of tweets by famous philosophers and writers appear throughout the film. Between the evocative urban scenarios that unfold, the viewer is invited on a seven-minute cinematic journey that interrogates our indissoluble relationship with words.