Is This Some Kind Of Joke?

Judging by this selection of shorts, the answer is yes. Bold, bizarre, impertinent, hilarious – the animated films in this programme all take a sideways look at life.

Rory Waudby-Tolley attempts to make Art for Laywers. Seo-Ro Oh, using brilliant visual metaphors, creates the best film on sneezing ever made (OO). In Knock Strike, we follow the character on his quest to find a VHS player (spoiler: a toaster won’t do the trick). If all this was not enough we climax with Don Hertzfeldt’s World of Tomorrow II, the sequel to “the best short film of the century.”

(OO)*

Dir: Seoro Oh
South Korea 2017, 6 mins

Satellite Strangers*

Dir: James Bascara
USA 2017, 6 mins

Art for Lawyers

Dir: Rory Waudby-Tolley
UK 2017, 9 mins

Rabbit’s Blood

Dir: Sarina Nihei
UK, Japan 2017, 5 mins

Enough

Dir: Anna Mantzaris
UK 2017, 3 mins

Toy House*

Dir: Natasha Danilevskaya
Russia 2017, 6 mins

Knock Strike*

Dir: Genis Rigol, Paul Anglada, Marc Torices
Spain 2017, 5 mins

Opal Waltz*

Dir: Vincent Tsui
France, USA 2017, 4 mins

Octane*

Dir: Jeron Braxton
USA 2017, 6 mins

How to Paint Your Rainbow*

Dir: Erick Oh
USA 2018, 2 mins

World of Tomorrow: Episode Two

Dir: Don Hertzfeldt
USA 2017, 23 mins

*UK premieres