Shorts 5: Underworlds and Utopias

75 minutes
Shorts 5: Underworlds and Utopias

Expect assortments of the latest and greatest shorts from around the globe. These animation tapas are fighting for one of our coveted awards.

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2019

Showing in this program

A Town Called Panic : The County Fair

A Town Called Panic : The County Fair

  • Vincent Patar / Stéphane Aubier
  • France / Belgium, 2019
  • 26 min.

Indian and Cowboy finally pass their exams. Horse buys them tickets for the County Fair. But at the last moment, he slips and comes crashing down on his head. He wakes up with no idea where he hid the tickets. So begins a race against time for them two to find the passes before it’s too late.

Belzebubs – Cathedrals of Mourning

Belzebubs – Cathedrals of Mourning

  • Samppa Kukkonen
  • Finland, 2019
  • 5 min.

Originally summoned together in 2002, Belzebubs has succeeded in creating a thrilling blend of melodic black metal, guttural growls and vivid solos, forged with progressive twists and cinematic soundscapes. “Cathedrals Of Mourning” is the band's second single from their debut album, “Pantheon Of The Nightside Gods”.

Five

Five

  • Peter Kaboth
  • Germany, 2019
  • 6 min.

The starting point is a nursery rhyme about a carefree community in which everything runs according to fixed rules. But this community gets out of hand as two dare to break out of the structures.

Getting Started

Getting Started

  • William Crook
  • Switzerland, 2019
  • 2 min.

The person and the project get mixed up in this short experimental celebration. Feeling frenetic, frustrated, ecstatic, distracted, it's all part of getting started.

Hateful Goo

Hateful Goo

  • Max Winston
  • United States, 2019
  • 3 min.

An naive gamer-punk is sucked into a psychedelic goo-crazed video game in this mixed-media music-video-film for Los Angeles punk band THE MANX!

Protocorba

Protocorba

  • Kirill Khachaturov
  • Russia, 2019
  • 7 min.

Protocorba is a fantasy world in which ordinary, unimposing characters live. Nothing unusual happens with them in this world. They walk, sit, stand, get bored in the wind, sometimes dance and buy some tea to drink. I think that if you have a grain of doubt in the reality of this world, it is vain, because the world is fictional and you only think that it is real.

PTSD

PTSD

  • Claudia Cortés Espejo / Lora D'Addazio / Mathilde Remy
  • Belgium, 2019
  • 8 min.

SSPT is the combination of 3 shorts. First there is this poor little Billy, creepy kid with PTSD, vainly trying to help his mother. Then there are those 3 little ducks trying to understand what this weird bird is doing in "their" pond. And then this endless chain of violence, spreading from one to another. Three stories, three styles, three directors.

Slug Life

Slug Life

  • Sophie Koko Gate
  • United Kingdom, 2018
  • 6 min.

We follow a day in the life of Tanya, a curious woman who has developed a taste for non human lovers.