Bernina Sings

While hemming her daughter's pants, a mother recalls a lifetime of sewing, brought to life through stop-motion collage of family photos, buttons and string.

A warm, tactile animated documentary that stitches family memories together with buttons and thread.

Mom tells me a story while she hems my pants on her Bernina sewing machine. A self-proclaimed imperfectionist, Mom doesn’t measure fabric or read instructions. After 50 years of sewing, you don’t need to follow anyone’s

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