WTF OFF: the Return - between chaos and vertigo
2026
11 short films, one wild ride. WTF OFF dismantles traditional animation through sensory chaos, shifting textures, and beautifully absurd narratives.
Some programs are meant to reassure. This one prefers to drift off course.
Bringing together 11 short films from around the world, WTF OFF explores the margins, the cracks, the tremors of the image, of storytelling and sometimes even of the viewer. Here, animation refuses to behave: it shakes, overflows, and gleefully dismantles what once seemed stable.
The first part of the program unfolds like a high-voltage laboratory. Forms mutate, textures shift, narratives fracture into pieces. Through radical visual experimentation and almost physical sensations, films such as I Felt Like Destroying Something Beautiful, The Impossible Mission, Larry, Quantum Jump, When the Mountains Shook and The Right to Be Forgotten challenge perception and invite us to let go. It’s a sensory journey at times abstract, often hypnotic.
Then, without warning, the second part drifts toward more narrative forms yet remains just as unpredictable. Stories emerge, unstable and strange, deeply human or defiantly absurd. From Ivan’s Need via Finding Uranus or I Live in the Woods, Los Viejos « Drop al infierno » and The Dying Pain of Existence, characters search for meaning in a world that doesn’t always provide it.
Throughout the program, styles collide: digital animation, collage, a lot of CGI, raw and organic assemblages… Each film asserts its own logic or its refusal of one. WTF OFF is not just a sequence of short films. It’s an experience, a gradual intensification, a controlled drift, an invitation to lose your bearings and perhaps find new ones.
Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough of WTF OFF ❤️