It feels unsettling because is real and is close to all of us. This animation is a follow up to the award winning short 'Blokes' and was animated by Matt Frodsham depicting the word of Mat Lloyd's poem. They are both tapping into major social issues here, so I am sure it will get all the attention it deserves, and hopefully it will spark some positive reaction, something that goes beyond the exchange of knowing looks between the viewers while they nod in agreement, but then do nothing.

Mat Lloyd says: "I wrote the poem on a canvas with a marker pen the morning after I was attacked.

The night before I was in my local park on the opening day of the skate park I'd helped get built, it was nearly midnight. We'd organised a DJ to play the day out in a marquee and I just popped out to take a leak. In my drunken state I was stumbling to find a bush when I heard, and felt, a sort of 'boink' sound. I knew I'd been hit on the back of the head, and I knew it wasn't with a fist. I don't remember much else other than being back at the marquee with a bleeding head..."

Matt has kept an in depth step-by-step log about the making of the animation.

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