Manchester Animation Festival

Visible Mending

Dir. Samantha Moore | United Kingdom

Visible Mending is a stop motion animated documentary made with knitted objects, exploring the effect that knitting has to help people to make sense of their lives. Case studies include; a software engineer who re-learned knitting to recover fine motor skills after a stroke, an occupational therapist who explains how knitting can help the brain as a therapeutic tool, an artist who uses her knitting as a medium to connect communities, a mother who knits to process anxiety about her injured son, and a terminal cancer patient who knits and crochets to give shape and meaning to her days.