Today I would like to flag something I found remarkable up, although in might only be watchable in the UK. Last night I watched Eternal Spring, a film about a group of Falun Gong practitioners in China who managed to hijack a local television station. It’s a pretty sad, depressing story to be honest, but what really caught my eye was the mode in which it was told. It is an animated film, but it is a style of animation I have never seen before: at the same time obviously drawing from Anime, but also almost photorealistic. It looked like scenes had been filmed in live action first and then drawn over, including every minute background detail. I found it fascinating, and even slightly uncanny – a weird postmodern hybrid of animation and live action which seemed very new, innovative and novel. I’d certainly be interested to see more films in this new style.