Do not look for the logic of what you are about to see — this is an unofficial slogan of our Animation Madness program. These are the cartoons that reload consciousness and open up new horizons of understanding animated films.
No more talking — true madness can not be described, it can only be seen and experienced.
And, as practice shows, it's best to do it in a friendly company of the same crazy like-minded people at KISFF.
The films contain several sequences with imagery and sustained flashing lights that may affect those who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or have other photosensitivities.
AWKWARD
Nata Metlukh
USA | 2020, 4 min
A short film about awkward social moments.
MERCURY'S RETROGRADE
Zohar Dvir
UK | 2020, 6 min
A millennial is looking for her magic 8 ball inside her unconsciousness.
BYE LITTLE BLOCK! | PÁ KIS PANELOM!
Éva Darabos
Hungary | 2020, 9 min
A young woman learns that soon she will have to move from the blockhouse flat she lives in. After receiving the upsetting news from the owner of the flat she is overwhelmed with emotions. Her teardrop of farewell grows into a concrete monolith. When the drop hits the ground a surreal panorama of the blockhouse area - she used to call home - unfolds...
EASTER EGGS
Nicolas Keppens
Belgium, France, Netherlands | 2020, 15 min
The Chinese restaurant is empty. Mister Ping is gone. The exotic bird’s cage stands wide open. No one knows what happened. Two friends, Jason and Kevin, see this as a great opportunity to catch the birds and sell them for a great amount of money. But catching the birds ain’t as simple as it seems…
BABY ANGER | BÉBÉ COLÈRE
Jonathan Vinel, Caroline Poggi
France, Italy | 2021, 13 min
A lost baby, confronted with a contemporary world and its empty spaces, asks himself how to grow up.
FRIEND OF A FRIEND
Zachary Zezima
France | 2020, 14 min
A young man is sexually assaulted and subdues, punishes, then befriends his own attacker while confronting his past and the ambiguities of sexuality. Part fiction, part non-fiction, part autobiography and part dream, Friend of a Friend attempts to broaden the conversation around abuse and its motivations and implications, as well as the survivor vs. assailant dynamic and results of ostracism.
COCKPERA
Kata Gugić
Croatia | 2020, 4 min
A short opera inspired by Aesop's fable The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle.
MEGAMALL
Aline Schoch
Switzerland | 2020, 4 min
In a world of escalators, figures pursue their desire to consume in a given rhythm. One of the figures is sucked in at the end of an escalator and finds itself in a quiet, weightless room, where it joins the playing group. Meanwhile, the escalator world is thrown into confusion by a chips-mad dog. When the dog is also sucked in by an escalator, a power struggle between the two worlds begins.
GHOST DOGS
Joe Cappa
USA | 2020, 11 min
A home-alone rescue pup is visited by a host of deceased pups in this mind-bending short.