I demand to be rendered as a lump of plastic. Now! Why can’t I be made into a lump of placticine? It seems the fashionable thing for crips to do, now that ardman had made a collection of short animations on disability. The creators of Wallace and grommet, it seems, have been commissioned by the charity Leonard Cheshire to raise disability awareness. This, of course, interests me, both as a student of film and as a disabled person.

I have yet to see these films. I need to see them before I pass judgement. I’d like to train my analytical eye onto them; I wonder, too, what Alan would make of them.

For the time being, though, I think it’s a step in the right direction. Yes, I have a slight problem in the way it still renders disabled people as ‘other’ – the new characters are presented to the audience on their own, suggesting difference and separation – but the basic premise is correct. Awareness of disability must be heightened. If CaMoron’s about to ruin disability rights, this might represent a chance to salvage them.

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