Synopsis
In this animated short from Diane Obomsawin, four women reveal the nitty-gritty about their first loves, sharing funny and intimate tales of one-sided infatuation, mutual attraction, erotic moments, and fumbling attempts at sexual expression. For them, discovering that they’re attracted to other women comes hand-in-hand with a deeper understanding of their personal identity and a joyful new self-awareness.
A word from Tënk
In this animated adaptation of her eponymous comic strip published a few years earlier, Diane Obomsawin offers us a tender and witty incursion into the intimacy of the first sexual awakenings of four girls who like girls.
Through this anthology of memories evoking the founding moments of the construction of desire, the filmmaker succeeds in translating with authenticity the stories she gathered through interviews with those closest to her. While remaining a very personal work, the incarnation of the characters as zooanthropic creatures creates the space and the offset necessary for everyone to recognize themselves and to see their own experiences shimmering there; the disappointments, the confusions, but also the joys and the effervescence of new feelings. The humor, the acuity and the intelligence of the drawings bring out the extraordinary impact of the first attractions - conscious or not, reciprocal or not - in all that they have of overwhelming, trivial and beautiful.
The final chapter plunges us into the memories of the filmmaker herself, culminating in a very touching finale - in a cinema! - which celebrates the importance of the diversity of sexual representations on the screen.
Jason Burnham
Tënk's programming coordinator
