ONE WEEK ABOUT Kaboom Animation Festival
The annual Kaboom Animation Festival – from March 13 to 22 in Utrecht, Amsterdam, and online – presents the latest, most creative, innovative, and daring national and international animation productions under the theme ‘Human Touch’. Over the coming days, we will be showcasing a number of the Dutch participants, today Eva Bonnevits.
Stick With Me explores the overwhelming fear of merging with a partner and losing all sense of individuality.
It starts out small, wearing the same clothes, having the same friends, maybe even the same hobbies until it spirals out of control, and you find yourself fighting not to become a monstrous entity so that one can’t function without the other.
At a party, Tina notices several couples who have become so alike they can’t seem to separate from each other. In a blind panic she flees to the safety of her own home. Once she’s caught her breath, she’s relieved to see her boyfriend, who is completely different from her. Right?
In a sticky struggle to hold on to her identity, Tina becomes worse than the very thing she despises most.
The bubblegum-colored backgrounds, combined with bold linocut lines and dynamic 2D animation, create a vibrant yet bizarre world drawing the viewer into a story that will stick with them.
Directors’ statement
Couples that look the same, wear the same clothes, have the same friends and hobbies terrify me.
If your life is so similar what do you talk about at the end of the day? Stick With Me embodies my own hypocrisy.
I have this need for individualism, the need to do things on my own and to be my own person. So when I see couples that are so similar that they seem to melt together all I want to do is sound the alarm and make a run for it.
BUT On the other hand, there is something so nice and comforting about being one with your partner and melting together on the couch while watching your favorite show.
This film brings those two things together. With a main character that is so afraid to be like “those” couples that she can’t see that she’s becoming something even worse.
