New Aardman Short Addresses Loneliness and Aging



AWN reports: “Award-winning animation studio Aardman and the Bristol Ageing Better (BAB) partnership have teamed up to create a short film illustrating local older people’s experience of social isolation in the city, and what they can do to be less lonely.

“The short film aims to raise awareness of the effects of social isolation among older people, but also to promote positive activities and BAB as a single point of contact for people to get involved and improve their lives.”

The short’s unexpected blend of animated silliness and raw, undoctored recordings of the elderly is all-caps CHARMING, to say the least. It sorta reminds me of the brief audio collages on Simon & Garfunkel’s Bookends album, as well as David Greenberger’s Duplex Planet comic strips.



Bristol Ageing Better was directed by Rich Webber.