Never Like the First Time!

Aldrig som första gången!

Sweden

2006

15 Min

Color

Swedish

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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CAST Mikael Brolin, Hanna Eklöf, Rebecca Haridi, Jenny Holmström, Torbjörn Jäger, Johanna Karlsson, Frederik Östling

Four people share the stories of their first sexual experience in this animated short subject from Swedish filmmaker Jonas Odell. Each vignette features a different look and animation style, and the stories covers a time span from the 1920’s to the present day. Each narrator recalls their loss of virginity in a different way, ranging from deeply romantic nostalgia to befuddled disappointment to terror in the face of unexpected violence as their stories play out on screen.

Director

Jonas Odell

Jonas Odell is partner and co-founder of Filmtecknarna. Jonas specializes in making films mixing live action and various mixed media animation techniques. He has also scripted, co-scripted and written the music to a number of the studio’s productions. Early films that Jonas directed include “Revolver” (1993) and “Family and Friends” (2002). His short film “ Never Like The First Time! ” was awarded with the Golden Bear for best short film in the Berlin Film Festival 2006. His short “Lies” was awarded as Best international short at the Sundance film festival 2009. The past years Jonas has also been a much sought after director for music videos and his portfolio includes videos for such artists as Erasure, Goldfrapp, U2 and Franz Ferdinand, for which he received an award for breakthrough video of the year at the MTV Music Awards 2004 as well as a Grammy nomination. Jonas also directs a number of television commercials each year. —FilmTecknarna