Shorts 7: Our Fragile Existence

80 minutes
Shorts 7: Our Fragile Existence

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

Body World

Body World

  • Kitty Faingold
  • United Kingdom, 2018
  • 7 min.

A fully grown woman is birthed into a hazy summer's garden. A rose daemon emerges from the bushes. As it takes her hand we follow our anonymous heroine on her hapless adventure. Body World is a short film that wonders what it's like to be (only) a conscious figment in someone else's imagination and was created using 2d digital animation.

Dancing Frog

Dancing Frog

  • Jin-man Kim
  • South Korea, 2018
  • 9 min.

Everything is connected.

Drive

Drive

  • Pedro Casavecchia
  • United Kingdom, 2019
  • 6 min.

Dark feelings harvested during the childhood of a kid erupt in violence after his mother dies. Pulsión (Drive) explores themes of abuse and dysfunctional family environments.

Flow

Flow

  • Adriaan Lokman
  • The Netherlands / France, 2019
  • 13 min.

Floating like leafs we witness a turbulent day in a life through the most vital element surrounding us. Brushstrokes of air in all its subtle, gentle, powerful and inner manifestations paint our fragile existence in the most unpredictable stormy ways.

Hors de l’eau

Hors de l’eau

  • Simon Duong Van Huyen / Joël Durand / Thibault Leclercq / Valentin Lucas / Andrei Sitari
  • France, 2018
  • 8 min.

Through the eyes of a macaque mother, a group of snow monkeys has to face the strict rules which govern
their community.

Purpleboy

Purpleboy

  • Alexandre Siqueira
  • Portugal / France / Belgium, 2019
  • 13 min.

Oscar is a child who sprouts in his parents garden. Nobody knows his biological sex but he claims the masculine gender. One day Oscar lives an extraordinary but painful adventure in an authoritarian and oppressive world. Will he manage to have the identity recognition he desires so much?

Still Lives

Still Lives

  • Elli Vuorinen
  • Finland, 2019
  • 6 min.

The concept of busy stillness is explored from various standpoints as museum artefacts from all around the world reflect on the mundane challenges of modern life.

Tatran – White Lies

Tatran – White Lies

  • Shahaf Ram
  • Israel, 2018
  • 3 min.

The year is 2019. No matter how much I try and exaggerate things, reality is one step ahead. Politics or reality shows, wars or entertainment, true love or Instagram, it seems like it's all kind of the same.