Screened as part of NZIFF 2023

Animation NOW! #2: Late Night Bizarre 

Animation Now!

Jul 27

Academy Cinemas

Jul 30

Academy Cinemas

82 minutes

Animated shorts with BIG personalities! A dependably depraved screening of animated specimens from the wrong side of the tracks. Every year connoisseurs of the strange make the pilgrimage to NZIFF’s annual altar of the outlandish and the outrageous. Fiery death by speed dating miscalculation, the cruel post-reality of growing up as a banana, life inside a dog, the vicious revenge of chickens wronged one time too many, goats on speed, hounds in cakes ... this is a programme for those who can only handle a certain kind of truth. — MT

Alestorm – Shitboat (No Fans) 2020

Director

2 minutes

Not your ordinary pirate ship… definitely not your ordinary pirate ship.

Honey Sweet 2021

Director

UK
4 minutes

A sticky, utterly lickable and mind-melting comment on a society dripping with nihilism and the addiction to capitalist baubles.

Speed 2021

Director

UK
2 minutes

Speed dating is all about messaging and it’s easy to get burned if you’re not looking for the signals.

Little World Changers 2021

Director

4 minutes

Three teens try to save the world from a giant butt who is threatening the world with a flood of pollution pouring from a huge magical pipe.

Krak 2021

Director

6 minutes

A man crawls out of a banana and explains how he found himself inside this fruit in the first place—an unusual origin story (to say the least).

Juice 2022

Director

5 minutes

In a musty, damp crevice a microcosm of fleshy creatures live in a dark, moist biome, exploring one another and continuously bathing in a seemingly nourishing viscous mucus.

The Dog Apartment 2022

Director

14 minutes

The strange life of a boozy ballet dancer living in a barking apartment trying to navigate the kind of world that could only be conjured up within the realm of animation.

Pussy Love 2023

Director

4 minutes

Cool Cat invites you to enjoy a show of lust and laziness. The claws are sharp, the soda is sparkling and the fur is getting wet.

Drunk 2022

4 minutes

An animated visual poem merging confessions of alcoholic remorse and the cubist art of Paul Klee.

Dessert Dachshund 2022

Director

7 minutes

A special dachshund, encased entirely within a wedding cake, bursts forth as a good luck talisman for the happy couple.

A Goat's Spell 2022

Director

9 minutes

A conquest before breakfast, a clueless goat next to the house, a couple of promising airplanes far up in the sky… it’s going to be an interesting day!

Le Sourire de la Courgette 2020

Director

8 minutes

An imaginative love story of a girl in the desert who falls in love with a “cloud being” all the while trying to grow courgettes in the sand.

Scoundrels 2021

USA
3 minutes

Three unhoused weirdos attempt a desperate and perverse get rich quick scheme that ends in savagely unfortunate consequences.

The Dip 2020

UK
5 minutes

A dip, a shablam, a death drop is when a dancer strikes a pose and dramatically falls on their back.

The Poultry Punisher 2022

Director

5 minutes

It was always going to happen—one day the chickens were just going to get to the point where they’ve had enough. It’s payback time.