Created using a classic typewriter (an Underwood 315 to be exact), Elizabeth Hobbs once again shows her hand as a noteworthy filmmaker in this uniquely charming short, celebrating the typist-turned-pilot Amy Johnson’s record-breaking solo flight from the UK to Australia in 1930.

I adore the work of Hobbs, and this short is no exception. The concept is simple, the practice complex. We are presented first with the animator setting to work, showing how the images are made, before diving headlong into a wonderfully executed tumble of experimentation and abstraction of type. By compounding simple shapes with flickers and flashes, the dotted crowd cheers, the zero-dash-bracket rotor spins, the craft takes flight, soaring through printed turbulence, and I beg you watch.

As I hold no copyright over these spotlighted works, links may break from time to time, but where this is the case, I ask you - seek them out. It’ll be worth it. Caution: this short contains flashing images.