Synopsis:
ABCs of Death 2 is an anthology featuring 26 short short tales of death (related to each letter) by directors from all around the globe
- Director:
- Evan Katz, Julian Barratt, Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo, E.L. Katz, Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska, Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado, Chris Nash, Steven Kostanski, Bill Plympton, Rodney Ascher, Robert Boocheck, Erik Matti, Dennison Ramalho, Kristoffer Rus, Bruno Samper, Hajime Ohata, Vincenzo Natali, Jerome Sable, Juan Martinez Moreno, Todd Rohal, Wolfgang Matzl
- Year:
- 2014
- Country:
- Austria
- Running time:
- 1 min.
- Technique:
- Cut-Out Animation, Mixed media
- Production type:
- Professional
- Producers:
- Ant Timpson, Tim League, Wolfgang Matzl
- Animator:
- Robert Morgan
- Script writers:
- Evan Katz, Julian Barratt, Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo, E.L. Katz, Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska, Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado, Chris Nash, Steven Kostanski, Bill Plympton, Rodney Ascher, Robert Boocheck, Erik Matti, Dennison Ramalho, Kristoffer Rus, Bruno Samper, Hajime Ohata, Vincenzo Natali, Jerome Sable, Juan Martinez Moreno, Todd Rohal
- Music composers:
- Christopher Drake, André Rössler, Isabel Greiwe
- Productions:
- Drafthouse Films, Timpson Films
- Distribution:
- Magnet Releasing
- Genres:
- Horror, Comedy, Experimental
- Tags:
- Death, Surreal, Festival Darlings, Humor
- Audience:
- Adults
- Festival selections:
- Fantastic Fest, Toronto International Film Festival, Animafest Zagreb – World Festival of Animated Film
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Horror-struck
2017 Adults 5 min
by Tamás Börönte
We’re following a debauched band heading to a bar. There is a dog on the road eating pizza, and they just drive over him without stopping. They don’t know yet that the dog will come back to take revenge.
- Music Videos
- Horror
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Bolognese
2021 Adults 6 min
by Achille Thiébaux, Achille THIEBAUX
In a dystopian world where we no longer eat to live but where we only live to eat, meat has become the one and only food available. We follow the daily life of one of the citizens of this world who works as a cashier in a supermarket. Like everyone else, he eats meat… but ends up biting his fingers. He then goes to the nearest hospital…
- Drama
- Horror
- Comedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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The Tell Tale Heart
2006 Adults 8 min
by Annette Jung & Gregor Dashuber
Ed hates the disgusting eye of his father and so he made up his mind to take the life of the old man to rid himself of the eye forever. (Based upon the novel “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe)
- Horror
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
- Experimental
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Food For Fraught
2017 Adults 2 min
by Reid McManus
A man makes a delicious sandwich for his loving wife.
- Comedy
- Experimental
- Horror
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Heldenkanzler
2011 Adults 13 min
by Benjamin Swiczinsky
Heldenkanzler is based on a true story. Vienna 1993 – Parliament: Many delegates are talking. A tiny man lifts himself up on the speaker’s desk. It is Engelbert Dollfuss. The other parliamentarians make fun of him loudly. A fight breaks out in the parliament. The tiny man escapes from the troubled parliament and flees into the next cinema. As he recognizes that even a small Austrian man rides highly successful on the wave of victory in Germany, he also decides to take power.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
- Bio-pic
- Experimental
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The Box – Poltergeist
2012 16+ 3 min
by Dadomani Studio
The Box and Dox spend their entire lives sitting on the couch in front of the TV. Both are afflicted with a very powerful addiction to television. This addiction plays out in their behaviours and reactions, which are polar opposites of each other. The Box uses the TV to fall asleep, while Dox is a victim of his unstoppable instinct of channel surfing. They both need TV, albeit for different purposes.
- Horror
- Comedy
- Experimental
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Saint Pascual
2016 16+ 5 min
by Anna Tsoy
Maria has been left by her fiancé, she finds comfort in the meal. Her pets join her, and she keeps feeding them. Soon, all her clothes will be tight.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Force of Attraction
2014 16+ 4 min
by Eva Sekerešová
Movie Force Of Attraction is parodying persistent stereotypes about Russians and Americans. Author used live-action movie storytelling method and traditional cultural elements. The movie is also using a lot of gags intended for adult audience. This movie was made in digital paper cut-out animation technique and visual was made in traditional artistic way.
- Comedy
- Sci-Fi
- Romance
- Experimental
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OFF TO THE CASTLE!
2011 10+ 6 min
by Boris Šima
Pleasant film about unforgettable adventure with mammoth, experienced by troublesome schoolboy Jakub in museum.
- Comedy
- Experimental
- Adventure
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Marcel Gidote’s Holy Crab: General Goodstore
2021 16+ 5 min
by Iris Hobson-Mazur, Michaela Matějková
In the music video we visit a bizarre shop in the middle of nowhere. Our guide is a shady man in a bowler hat, who may not be as friendly as he seems. The shop offers a variety of bizarre items including portals to other worlds.
- Comedy
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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À la mode
2020 16+ 9 min
by Jean Lecointre
In a kingdom tormented by fashion crazes, a queen and her court must always keep up with the new trend. If not, an abominable monster will consume them: the Ridicule. But with the arrival of a disarmingly natural cowboy, this nation of fashion victims laughs, and a simple question arises: what if the Ridicule isn’t what we think?
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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My Favourite Hill!
2020 16+ 4 min
by Christopher Childs
A group of factory workers become obsessed with a hill. They let loose on the marshy earth, succumbing to their strange desires.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Fantasy
- Abstract
- Experimental