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.

Curated by Kyrylo Marikutsa

SH_T HAPPENS

Michaela Mihalyi, David Štumpf

Czech Republic / 2019, 13 min

An apartment building full of self-centred inhabitants: an utterly exhausted caretaker and his sexually frustrated wife, a widowed deer drowning his sorrows in loads of alcohol... While trying to cope with their problems, they find themselves in a hard-to-resolve triangle, seeking absurd and…

ELI

Nate Milton

USA / 2019, 11 min

A true story from the realms of high strangeness, magical thinking, and manic delusion.

AND THEN THE BEAR

Agnès Patron

France / 2019, 14 min

That very night, houses will burn. Men and women will tremble. Hordes of children will come together and howl as they dance alone on the ashes like wild bears. It only takes one shout to wake them all from their slumber!

STORY

Jolanta Bankowska

Poland / 2019, 4 min

Story' is a reflection about modern man in the age of omnipresent technology. Looking through stories - a popular function in many social media platforms - we see people who are lonely, lost or already indifferent about reality surrounding them. Action takes place during one day and it's told by short, often (auto)ironic scenes, where virtual world sinks to reality.

ANIMALS

Tue Sanggaard

Denmark / 2019, 6 min

Losing all sense of rationality, they go wild in order to ensure their own survival.

APFELMUS

Alexander Gratzer

Austria / 2019, 7 min

While two uniformed guards divulge themselves as spineless beings, animals carry on philosophical dialogues about important existential issues. At the same time the solution to one of the most essential problems is apparent: you just have to wash, peel, cut, and mash it. The apple.

WOOD CHILD AND HIDDEN FOREST MOTHER

Stephen Irwin

UK / 2019, 9 min

Deep in the forest, a hunter encounters a strange creature he cannot kill. In a deceptively colourful and childish graphic style, Irwin evokes a bleak universe. A forest provides the backdrop for a surreal rite of passage: the male hunter becomes female, and he sacrifices his own body as food for the forest children.

CHICKEN OF THE DEAD

Julien David

France / 2019, 10 min

Bernard Lepique is the head of Quasi, a firm specializing in manufacturing chickens that are half-organic, half-antibiotic. During the launch of his new chicken range, nothing goes as planned.

THE LONELY ORBIT

Benjamin Morard, Frederic Siegel

Switzerland / 2019, 10 min

Leaving for his dream job, a satellite technician keeps solitude at bay by constantly texting with his old friends. After neglecting his duties a satellite leaves its orbit which causes the worlds network to collapse.