In a world where admiration and status are given to whomever can carry the heaviest books on their head, a man hopes his son will achieve what he himself couldn't.
Direction
Kroon crams a feature's worth of world-building into 600 seconds.
Director
Piet Kroon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dada shared the 1994 Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short with The Wrong Trousers—Wallace & Gromit won, but Kroon's bleak fable has aged into cult status among animation nerds.
The title 'Dada' evokes both the art movement (absurdist anti-bourgeois) and 'father' in several languages—Kroon essentially named his film 'Daddy' and dared you to overthink it.
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