Digital Chutzpah Animated Shorts Collection

DIGITAL CHUTZPAH ANIMATED SHORTS COLLECTION FEATURES

Butterfly Kiss | Guygu | Hot Fish | Orly Loses Hope | untitled journal entry_2025

Content warning: some of these shorts are for mature audiences only.

Each short in this interactive exhibition uses animation in unique, provocative, or experimental ways, representing a wide variety of animation styles and even the intersection between animation and documentary.

• Butterfly Kiss

Director Zohar Dvir
10 min
Germany | Hebrew with English subtitles

Carol panics and argues with her girlfriend Ray after an unexpected proposal. The situation gets worse when she wakes up in an apocalyptic reality and terribly discovers that Ray has transformed into a butterfly.

• Guygu

Director Jordan Barr and Chen Heifetz
7 min
Israel | Hebrew with English subtitles
Nominated for the Israeli Oscar for Best Animated Short Film

A short, animated documentary about Guy Gilboa Dalal, who was kidnapped from the Nova party and is being held as a hostage by Hamas. The film blurs the lines between reality and fantasy – between the horrifying moments of the kidnapping, drawn from real footage provided by Guy’s family, and the agonizing silence that followed.

• Hot Fish

Director Yael Reisfeld
7 min
Israel | No dialogue

A hungry lion fish in the red sea accidentally swallows a fisherman’s porn-infested phone and turns into a glamorous seduction mutation, experiencing the complexity of human sexuality.

Orly Loses Hope

Director Yarden Ben Tabou De Leon
8 min
Israel | Hebrew with English subtitles

Orly’s optimistic worldview is shattered when she witnesses the death of a pigeon. In order to move on, she tries her best to find some meaning in what happened.

untitled journal entry_2025

Director Paula Stuttman
4 min
SA | English

Random scraps from an untitled, undated journal entry made in 2025.