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While trying to do a bit of background reading, I came across this short film festival in Bristol, which has a website. I looked at the 2010 shorts of the submissions for the festival and picked two that I liked, to look at and think about. This one called Knit n Purl is on the face of it a cute kind of trailer for an animated couple of knitted characters. You watch it and feel like its kind of relevant as knitting as a hobby has become strangely popular again recently, there have been many “random acts of knitting” for example knitted bar covers on a pedestrian bridge in Bristol appeared as if by magic, there have been other inanimate objects that have had covers knitted for them too around the country. So anyway, this short makes you think that this is worth watching, it links into your subconscious in a kind of way. It seems cute. But then at the end, it turns a bit dark and the knitting character that has used part of the other character to make a small doll, which makes you think that this is going to be about parenting or something. Turns into a voodoo moment, which is really surprising, and quite disturbing, so now I want to see the whole film as though I felt in was interesting in a passive sort of way, now I think, well I don’t know what this will be about but it’s surprising, and I find myself quite drawn into it. Plus I do like the simple looking stop-motion animation, no background, a bit like the Pixar credit with the lamp that you see all the time… (in style anyway) This one grabbed me as I had just been looking at a short anime about the font FUTURA - http://vimeo.com/33434885 - and i think the titles of this are in that font! I like this style of plasticine type animation, so I watched on. This is a simple animation with a small character, who gets caught in the lift doors and comes – presumably – to a squishy end, as the lift then moves up to the next floor. Again dark but in a tom and jerry kind of way, not scary, certainly not threatening, but seems to be designed to make you laugh, a lot of this is because of the soundtrack which makes it light-hearted. If there was different music and sounds from the character, then the feeling would change completely, which is an interesting thought in itself.