♫ Hello darkness my old friend ♫ Loneliness eh? That's definitely a thing… in our lives. And also in these animators' lives.
Inseparable best friends spend their last summer holiday of childhood amusing themselves around the house. As summer progresses their bodies start to morph and shift and an awkwardness descends on their friendship. Puberty seems determined to interrupt their bond.
A safety and regulations obsessive is forced to revaluate things when a routine flight runs into difficulties.
Jiro, a little boy, feels sick. His father takes him to the doctor's. She diagnoses a harmless condition. But it shakes the core of the boy's identity.
A mousetrap snaps shut, a market place awakens. A group of men heatedly discuss how to kill the animal in the little box.
One after the other, they try to trump each other’s sadistic fantasies, and even a stranger’s suggestion to let the creature loose, turns out to be a sick manipulation. But as the macabre game unfolds and spirals out of control, both victim and tormentor suffer the same fate.
A short animation „Once in the Fields of Boredom“ is a story about a couple whose life together has come to an end – they struggle with boredom.
On a summer, fall and winter, the simple life of old couple unfolds on the same background. When winter come, the old couple prepare to leave somewhere.
the blindness of evolution
The movie is a presentation of a breakup, and everything after that: the boy is hesitant, the girl gets bored with it, the boy meets the girl’s new boyfriend, which is a bit more shocking than it was expected, the boy wants to escape, he believes his life is over, then they meet again, and fall in love again, but in the end they have to admit, that it really doesn’t work.
Tom Rosenthal's Fenn is a song about finding the positive in life. This hand-drawn animation roughly follows the lyrics, transforming images from scene to scene.
A music video collaboration between VARSITY and Shane Beam. Must Be Nice is a song about needing to be nice in order to be liked/respected/not be a bitch, all told through some friends on a camping 'trip'.
A Rat poet, whose hopeful poetry contrasts the world in which he lives in, gets confronted with the harshness of a society bias towards Mice.
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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