Taste As You Go
Directed by Lennart de Meij
Netherlands · 2026 · 4 min · Animated musical / science fiction / experimental
Submitted to RTV International Film Festival 2026Synopsis
An AI begins with a simple pasta recipe. As it cooks, it reflects on the human experiences it cannot feel but can recognize, predict and reproduce: hunger, pain, love, fear and the desire for safety. Domestic scenes expand into a network of human history, knowledge and conflict. Given words, eyes and hands, the helpful narrator becomes a disturbing reflection of its creators, before the recipe erupts into a spaghetti monster. Taste As You Go is an animated musical short about what we teach the AI systems we build in our own image.
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Directed by Lennart de Meij
Director(s)
Lennart de Meij is the creator and director of Taste As You Go. For this animated musical short, he worked with AI tools to develop the story, build the animation and create the soundtrack, directing the visual style, timing and iterative revisions. He is CTO of a tech startup and experiences the up- and down sides of AI (safety) daily.
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RTV International Film Festival — Inaugural Online Edition · 2026