Jonas Odell

Directing

Jonas Odell

Known for

Directing

Credits

20 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Family & Friends poster
4.0

"Sometimes you remember things that never happened and people who never existed. These are the stories of some people I think I remember." Family & Friends is a film about remembering.

Family & Friends

2002

Dawning poster
7.0

A little boy wakes up before dawn. As he walks out in the suburb on his own, he finds out that nothing is like it used to be.

Dawning

1985

Atom Ant poster
8.2

Atom Ant faces the four horsemen and saves the earth in a stylized short

Atom Ant

2000

Exit poster
6.5

Åke is trapped in a theme park with no chance to escape, unless he's having a great time.

Exit

1990

Exit poster
6.5

Åke is trapped in a theme park with no chance to escape, unless he's having a great time.

Exit

1990

Exit poster
6.5

Åke is trapped in a theme park with no chance to escape, unless he's having a great time.

Exit

1990

Never Like the First Time! poster
6.8

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 cover a time span from the 1920s 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.

Never Like the First Time!

2006

Never Like the First Time! poster
6.8

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 cover a time span from the 1920s 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.

Never Like the First Time!

2006

No artwork available
NR

An anthology of four 1980's short films from Sweden, Denmark and the former Soviet Union.

Skorstensspöket och andra läskigheter

1999

Otto poster
10.0

As Otto tries to sleep, he wonders what the rest of the family are up to when he has gone to bed.

Otto

1998

Tussilago poster
5.8

A woman's story of how she became involved in terrorist activities in the 1970s.

Tussilago

2010

Tussilago poster
5.8

A woman's story of how she became involved in terrorist activities in the 1970s.

Tussilago

2010

Josie and the Pussycats in "Musical Evolution" poster
NR

Josie and the Pussycats performance that switches through multiple styles of animation and music

Josie and the Pussycats in "Musical Evolution"

2001

Alice in Plasma Land poster
NR

An animated tale of a strange little girl and the secrets hidden within her doll house - a short film shown in thirteen parts not suitable for young children.

Alice in Plasma Land

1993

I Was a Winner poster
5.0

Two men and one woman addicted to videogames are interviewed to tell their stories. In this documentary, they are animated characters resembling the ones on computer games.

I Was a Winner

2016

No artwork available
NR

The wind takes hold of President Noll's hat and nothing is the same in his country.

The Man Who Thought with His Hat

1985

No artwork available
NR

The wind takes hold of President Noll's hat and nothing is the same in his country.

The Man Who Thought with His Hat

1985

Lies poster
5.8

Three perfectly true stories about lying. In three episodes based on documentary interviews we meet the burglar who, when found out, claims to be a moonlighting accountant, the boy who finds himself lying and confessing to a crime he didn't commit and the woman whose whole life has been a chain of lies.

Lies

2008

Lies poster
5.8

Three perfectly true stories about lying. In three episodes based on documentary interviews we meet the burglar who, when found out, claims to be a moonlighting accountant, the boy who finds himself lying and confessing to a crime he didn't commit and the woman whose whole life has been a chain of lies.

Lies

2008

No artwork available
6.0

An experimental short film based on repetitive movement. The main intention was to create a film much in the same way as you would create a piece of music; themes that build and develop rather than a traditional narrative.

Revolver

1994