Ivan's Need
2015 · 6m
Directed by Veronica L. Montaño, Manuela Leuenberger, Lukas Suter
Genres: animation, comedy, coming-of-age
Tones: darkly comic, sensual, whimsical
The lusty adventures of a young baker's assistant entranced by the Rapunzel-esque endowment of a member of their clientele. A garish 2D animated look at burgeoning adolescent sexuality and all of its confusions.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A six-minute 2D fever dream about a teenager's obsession with a stranger's hair—it's both ridiculous and genuinely unsettling in a way that makes you uncomfortable laughing, which is exactly where the best subversive comedy lives.
The garish aesthetic deliberately rejects the polish of contemporary animation, positioning itself against the Disney lineage while engaging seriously with the anxieties of adolescence; it's a formal choice that demands viewers reconcile beauty with discomfort.
The decision to make the object of desire literally oversized and grotesque—playing the Rapunzel hair as grotesque rather than romantic—is the hinge that transforms what could be a crude premise into something genuinely strange and memorable.
Reviews
matching the garish colour palette and design style of its 2D animation with a densely constructed soundtrack to create an immensely fun look at burgeoning adolescent sexuality and all of its confusions.