Just a regular cock fight
2022 · 4m · Croatia
Directed by Kata Gugić
Genres: animation, comedy, musical
Tones: absurdist, humorous, whimsical
An animated opera in which roosters settle their differences through singing. The title is technically accurate and entirely misleading.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Croatian animated opera where roosters settle disputes through aria — the title alone is a deadpan masterpiece and four minutes feels exactly right. This is the unhinged poultry I came here for.
Gugić staging a cockfight as full operatic performance under Darko Bakliža at the Zagreb Academy is exactly the formal mischief that the European art-animation school tradition reliably produces, and the Bonobostudio distribution confirms the seriousness. Genuinely delightful.
4:27 animated opera (titled Cockpera on Vimeo) with three actual opera singers credited — that's committing musical craft to the joke instead of just gesturing at it. Croatian art-school production from Zagreb under Darko Baklizˇa, which is a strong animation lineage.