Visible Mending

Visible Mending

Emotional repair through wool.

Visible Mending reclaims the role knitting plays in many peoples’ lives; helping them face adversity, calm anxiety, and make crucial social connections. A group of knitted objects tell stories about how they have used knitting to mend themselves, even if the repair was temporary.

Animated documentary director Sam Moore (An Eyeful of Sound, Bloomers) was awarded a commission from the BFI Short Form Animation Fund to make Visible Mending, about love, death, and knitting, produced by Tilley Bancroft through MediaActive Projects. Executive producers are Sue Gainsborough (MediaActive Projects) and Abigail Addison (Animate Projects).

Emotionale Reparatur durch Wolle.

Visible Mending (Sichtbare Reparaturen) erinnert an die Rolle, die das Stricken im Leben vieler Menschen spielt, indem es ihnen hilft, Widrigkeiten zu bewältigen, Ängste abzubauen und wichtige soziale Kontakte zu knüpfen. Eine Gruppe von gestrickten Objekten erzählt, wie sie sich mit Hilfe des Strickens selbst repariert haben, auch wenn die Reparatur nur vorübergehend war.