How can we convey something that almost defies expression? This question has quietly followed me throughout my work in animation — especially when trying to approach difficult and vulnerable themes. In Chapter 15 “Animated Traumas: The Films of Anita Killi”, published in the newly released book Radical Children’s Film and TV (Edinburgh University Press), animator and academic Ole Christoffer Haga¹ writes about three of my films – The Hedge of Thorns², Angry Man³ and Mother D