Knitting might not seem like a modern day art, but a new documentary is out to prove that assumption incorrect. Una Lorenzen’s “Yarn” explores a quirky art form often ignored by the mainstream art world.

“Meet the artists who are redefining the tradition of knit and crochet, bringing yarn out of the house and into the world,” the film’s official synopsis reads. “Reinventing our relationship with this colorful tradition, ‘Yarn’ weaves together wool graffiti artists, circus performers, and structural designers into a visually-striking look at the women who are making a creative stance while building one of modern art’s hottest trends.”

Narrated by author Barbara Kingsolver, “Yarn” introduces characters from four different countries that use yarn in very different ways. Lorenzen, who calls the film a “poetic documentary,” is an Iclandic animator, whose animation skills are evident from the new trailer.

“Our characters have one thing in common,” Lorenzen says in a director’s statement, “they all work by hand and their work is in one way or another interacting with our environment; as part of architecture, the streets, and the nature, not to mention the connection with people. Beside of this, our characters are very different and there are soft and firm conflicts throughout film; between the characters’worldviews, between their different types of work, between the arts and the craft of yarn, and between the traditional and the modern world of yarn. This gives the film many layers. However the film has underlying deeper messages from our characters: about the world we live in, equal rights, politics, and the beauty of nature.”

Another issue the trailer brings up is how projects working with yarn, knitting, and crocheting are treated as lesser art forms as a result of sexist views.

“Yarn” opens in New York on June 24. Check out the interesting and charming trailer below.