Forget the Super Bowl, this is the real deal: the Kaboom's Official Short Film Competition.
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The greatest competitions: the Olympics, the World Cup, De Eredivisie, the NBA, your local darts tournament, and of course … The Kaboom Short Film Competition. Forget the Super Bowl, the most exciting show on the planet is this competition filled with animated shorts from all corners of the galaxy.
Here, 59 films – including student shorts, films by seasoned directors and even music videos – battle it out for our coveted awards.
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In every sense a KABOOM music video! The clip for Red Snapper's new single B Planet is a journey into psychedelic abstraction, pulling us into the now. A reality peppered with acidic distortions that transforms space into a super-vitaminated universe.
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Kitchen monster alert! In this combination of hand-drawn animation and cut-out, a loving grandmother gets everything ready for dinner with her big family, but this is so much work that she literally has to grow extra limbs. As everything goes wrong in the kitchen, she turns into a monster, but with the help of her family, she can turn back into herself.
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C'mon admit it, pigeons are often a pain in the ass. But here, they manage to create a magical moment in a lonely and boring place. In a coach station a collection of tired travellers are waiting for the coach. Somehow, in that cold and. depressing place, the resident pigeons are the reason for a little bit of harmony...
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A firefighter scans the city, ready to brave all dangers. But there is no fire. He wanted to put out everything that smoulders, smokes or burns. Even the Sun! Until he meets a woman and he flares up himself... from love.
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In the thirteenth century, at the time of the attack of the Mongols, a young musician and the love of his life are separated from each other. Fifty years after the incident, after Persia bowed to the invaders, the musician is summoned to perform at the castle of the Mongols where his beloved is being held. Meticulously crafted and with an achingly beautiful score, the film pays homage to love in times of extreme sorrow.
The fresh and colourful Poum Poum! is a musical animated film which celebrates the simple and childish joy of hitting drums, scribbling on paper using marker pens, splashing paint or making cracked cymbals screech. The short finds chaos, mishaps amusing and aims at spreading a spontaneous creative energy.
Made in traditional 2D animation, Summer Nights is a wild and warm music video for the Argentinian electropop rock band Siamés. Three old friends have a ritual to welcome a new member of the "cool kid" gang. A get-together with past summers, that brings back childhood memories.
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Telling a sort of new Genesis with a whole unique cosmography, the stupendously animated Terra Incognita follows life on a mysterious island, inhabited by immortal beings. These beings lead a pre-civilized life forgotten by time, spending their endless days in hedonistic lethargy. Through anecdotal vignettes, the film shows what happens when these beings are visited by the outside world, and whether or not there is a greater meaning to it all.
Kaboom Animation Festival is the one-stop-shop for the latest and greatest in all things animated. Ranging from cutting-edge experimental arthouse to colorful stories for families and kids, Kaboom will cater to the animation needs of all. Yes, even yours, my amazing weirdo friend!
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