366 hours in one minute. A Year of Hands is made up of 366 drawings of my hands in ink on watercolour paper, drawn every day for one hour, life-size, from life, using both hands, from 5th August 2023 to 4th August 2024. I chose the position of my hands each day to depict a series of commonplace movements. The sound, which I created from instruments, toys and vocalisations, echoes the stroking and tapping movements of my hands. Completion date: 15th August 2024. [60 seconds]

A Year of Hands is an Official Selection in the 2025 Tees Valley International Film Festival, with a live screening at ARC Arts Centre, Stockton-on-Tees in November 2025.

A Year of Hands is an Official Selection, and is on the Judges' Shortlist for an award, in the 2025 Women over Fifty Film Festival, with a live screening at Depot, Lewes on Saturday 13th September 2025, and an online screening from Friday 5th September to Monday 6th October 2025.

A Year of Hands was a Selected Film and Short-Listed (in the Animation category) in the 2025 Walthamstow International Film Festival, with a live screening in the Shortlist Screening at Forest Cinema, Walthamstow, on Sunday 22nd June 2025, and in the Festival screening at Walthamstow Trades Hall, on Sunday 29th June 2025.

A Year of Hands was an Official Selection in MicroActs presents Intimate Histories, with a live screening at FOMO House, Shoreditch, London, on Thursday 29th May 2025.

'We had a fantastic variety of filmmaking methodologies to share at this edition, such as artists giving themselves unique parameters to work with, like Cally Trench's 'A Year of Hands'. This playful super-short was created from 366 ink drawings of her own hands, drawn every day for one hour, life-size, from life & using both hands. An intimate self portrait, animated over an extensive period of a year, with such dedication & exuberance.' [Liberty Antonia Sadler in Microacts Newsletter, June 2025]

A Year of Hands was a Finalist in the 2025 Absurd Art House Film Festival, with a live screening at the Criterion Music Hall and Theatre, Blue Town, Sheerness, Kent, on Saturday 5th April 2025.

A Year of Hands was an Official Selection in the 2025 Brighton International Animation Festival, with a live screening at Fabrica, Duke Street, Brighton, on Saturday 5th April 2025, in the 'Sound and Vision' section. A specially-made version was shown, which has captions (scattered about the screen) to represent sounds.

A Year of Hands was included in a showreel in A Question of Drawing at Ilkon (Ilkeston Contemporary Arts), Derbyshire, 23rd January - 8th February 2025.

A Year of Hands was an Official Selection and Winner of Best International Super Short Animation in the 2024 Newcastle International Short Film Festival, with a live screening at the Royal Exchange Salon Theatre, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, on Friday 22nd November 2024.

A Year of Hands was an Official Selection in the Life Screenings One Minute Film Festival - September 2024. Curated by Banks Helfrich. Screened via Facebook on Saturday 28th September 2024, including participation by Cally Trench in a Q&A with the curator. This was the festival premiere of A Year of Hands.

A version of A Year of Hands has 'sub-titles' in different sizes, shades of grey and typographical emphasis, scattered about the screen so as to represent the sound without interfering with the drawings. This version was shown at the 2025 Brighton International Animation Festival.