Selectors' Comments:
It's difficult not to be seduced by the delight of a childhood script produced to this degree of sophistication. But that's not to say that it's sentimental – it retains the awkwardness of the artist's childhood imagination, combined with perhaps a feeling of the impossibility of regaining that spirit and energy as a 'grownup'. It's quite moving to watch.


Who would have thunk that the double indulgence of adolescent diary entries and by-the-book illustrational animation would yield a film as consumingly gripping as Laurie Hill's My First Taste of Death. The calm, retrospective narration and understatedly scarifying drawing, coupled with the unfailingly precise animation induce a child's wide-eyed and open-jawed attention. The five-minute teaser that satisfied Hill's competition entry left us literally hanging between March and May. Do NOT miss this.

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Selectors' Comments:
It's difficult not to be seduced by the delight of a childhood script produced to this degree of sophistication. But that's not to say that it's sentimental – it retains the awkwardness of the artist's childhood imagination, combined with perhaps a feeling of the impossibility of regaining that spirit and energy as a 'grownup'. It's quite moving to watch.


Who would have thunk that the double indulgence of adolescent diary entries and by-the-book illustrational animation would yield a film as consumingly gripping as Laurie Hill's My First Taste of Death. The calm, retrospective narration and understatedly scarifying drawing, coupled with the unfailingly precise animation induce a child's wide-eyed and open-jawed attention. The five-minute teaser that satisfied Hill's competition entry left us literally hanging between March and May. Do NOT miss this.