Shorts 4: We All Have Issues

70 minutes
Shorts 4: We All Have Issues

The Premiere League, De Eredivisie, La Liga or Die Bundesliga of the Kaboom Animation Festival. Expect top-notch assortments of the latest and greatest shorts from planet Earth. These animated pieces of art compete for our Kaboom Awards!

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2020-2021

Showing in this program

Affairs of the Art

Affairs of the Art

  • Joanna Quinn / Les Mills
  • United Kingdom / Canada, 2021
  • 16 min.

How many obsessions can one family have? In Joanna Quinn and Les Mills’ Affairs of the Art, we reconnect with Beryl, the working-class heroine who not only reveals her own obsession with drawing but exposes the addictions of her eccentric family, which include pickling, screw threads and pet taxidermy.

Asim C – Brown Skin

Asim C – Brown Skin

  • Ingi Erlingsson
  • United Kingdom, 2020
  • 2 min.

Asim Chaudhry slowly sinking with telltale tropes of UK living,
Golden Wolf's impactful animation captures the observations brought out in the song's poetic lyrics. Nightmarish in both its visuals and the endless decent it portrays a relevant political statement.

My Galactic Twin Galaction

My Galactic Twin Galaction

  • Sasha Svirsky
  • Russia, 2020
  • 6 min.

Good and evil, utopia and dystopia, narrative, and post narrative collide in a mortal battle to entertain the audience.

Naked

Naked

  • Kirill Khachaturov
  • Russia, 2019
  • 14 min.

Somewhere in Eastern Europe due to an accident in a laboratory, the hero gains superpowers that he does not want. The hero does not want to be a superhero, to save the world from villains, he wants to live as before without changing anything. The situation is complicated by the fact that while he gains the awareness of his power, it causes problems in his everyday life.

The Last Train

The Last Train

  • Ross Hogg
  • United Kingdom, 2019
  • 2 min.

An observational animation exploring the behaviours and interactions of a diverse cross section of tired, drunk, disgruntled, joyous and riotous strangers, pushed together within the confines of the last train home.

The Passerby

The Passerby

  • Pieter Coudyzer
  • Belgium, 2020
  • 16 min.

Op een zomerdag kruisen de wegen van twee jongens zich op onverwachte wijze.

Un jour d'été, les chemins de deux garçons se croisent de manière inattendue.

On a summer day, the paths of two boys unexpectedly cross.

Wade

Wade

  • Kalp Sanghvi / Upamanyua Bhattacharyya
  • India, 2019
  • 10 min.

In a version of Kolkata, India rendered unliveable by sea level rise, things take a dark turn when a family of climate change refugees are ambushed by a tiger on the flooded streets.