08.10 | 20:45
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Returning for its third year, the #killmeplease programme showcases and celebrates some of the craziest, controversial, and subversive animated shorts from around the world. A mixture of techniques, styles, and themes; this selection aims to "blow one's mind" and is ideal for anyone who enjoys indulging in the shocking, horrifying, or embarrassing.
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United Kingdom | 03:00 | 2023A philosophical debate on the legitimacy of art created by A.I. tools told through the medium of silliness. The Artist must confront the A.I. who is about to make some art on a canvas. -
Poland | 01:35 | 2023
Get out of breath on the stairs again? fed up with your slim figure? puke when you look in the mirror? don't have time for the gym? excellent! Turbo Chicken was created especially for you! filled with proteins, testosterone, lead, hatred and lust for murder, it tastes like a Silesian roulade! eat and grow! the rest of the leaflet is illegible.
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Italy | 02:38 | 2022
Doom is an animated video composed of a set of imponderable actions that trigger unpredictable and broken narratives. The characters set in a context with few spatial references move and contaminate each other, relationships that are impossible to escape. "Doom" is therefore a shared and inevitable destiny.
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USA | 03:51 | 2022
PRESSURIZED ORANGE JUICE VEINS. A reticent child stomachs normalized environmental pressures as they live under their caregiver’s domain.
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Belgium | 14:59 | 2023
Jeremy and Aurora are lost at sea. In the vast openness of the ocean they are cooped up together on a small tree bark. As they fail to understand each other’s desires and boundaries, the fight for their survival and the survival of their relationship becomes a bloody mess. Will our castaways be able to grow while trying to make it back to shore, or will they lose a piece of themselves along the way?
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Australia | 03:34 | 2023
All Pain, No Gain follows a character named Matthew who has been disgusted with his body, so he wants to go to the gym to lose his body fat. However, when he entered the gym, he was emotionally and verbally abused by two bulky gym goers. Thus, he sought to lose body fat and desired to gain muscle tissue, hoping that he would become muscular. But as many bodybuilders, their obsessions start to consume them. Maybe even for Matthew as well!
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Germany | 02:00 | 2023
"Beste100Bilder" is a pop art parody of 100 historical paintings, told in 7 seconds each. We show the paintings of the greats, enjoy the funny and absurd & tell stories in the process. At www.beste100bilder.com you can find all the individual animation loops. The project is experimental. We have a total of 100 individual loop animations. These can run individually, or bundled together. On the big screen, or on smaller screens.
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Spain | 03:36 | 2021
Rudy, a lanky and punky teenage boy, together with his innocent younger brother Alvin, visit an arcade in town where they waste all their money. Rudy, vexed with not being able to get a plush in a claw machine for his "babe", accuses it of cheating, triggering a trap that reverses the game and reveals three giant plushes who try to catch the kids and claim them as a prize.
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South Korea | 04:49 | 2023
Frogs begin to die one by one on the stones thrown by a human. The last remaining main character, the frog, decides to take revenge.
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Austria | 01:22 | 2023
Gustav is a nymphomaniac mosquito. He finds himself attracted to dangerous objects like fire, knives, corpses and stones.
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France, Portugal | 08:00 | 2023
Surrealism meets up with Crumb for a coffee and takes a long walk through Crazytown.
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United Kingdom | 01:47 | 2022
"DEATH BY..." is an animated morbid comedy featuring a compilation of ridiculous deaths.
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Costa Rica | 02:22 | 2022
This is the official music video for Gab Albertozzi's "Do Good And Bad Will Come To You" from the album "Odious Melodious" out now, on all streaming platforms. Music & Lyrics: Gabriel Bertozzi. 3D Animation & Director: Karina Torres (Frijolini)
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Austria, Hungary | 02:42 | 2021
A bittersweet animated short film about handling ageing, loneliness and the limits of human and non-human bodies, with the comfort of the entertainment industry.
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United Kingdom | 04:18 | 2022
A character's subconscious and inner world change their experience of the outside world. The concepts and events that occur are informed by Hanna's own research into surrealist automatism and subsequently their own subconscious. These atmospheres and events depict a neurodivergent experience of the world relating to themes of masking, sensory difficulties, time blindness and the need for familiar environments.
