I want to post this question to a research service like the now-defunct Google Answers, because I wouldn’t mind paying a few dollars for help answering it. This is the sort of question for which search engines themselves seem to be of no help whatsoever.

I am looking for a particular trippy animated short in which a little girl has lost her sock, and so her parents put her into the clothes dryer and turn it on. She finds herself in the “sock dimension”, an arid land where colorful socks of all types float and dance about. The girl eventually finds her missing sock and returns to the dryer, emerging unscathed with sock in hand.

I saw this at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) several years ago, ahead of a movie screening, but scouring Google and YouTube doesn’t turn up anything useful whatsoever.

What is the name of the animation piece I saw?

AnswerBag and a couple other sites I tried to use which came up as alternatives to Google Answers were of no help. The first wouldn’t even let me type in a question longer than a couple sentences. That’s fine for some questions, and granted, I probably could have expressed the above in fewer words, but that wouldn’t have preserved its tone and style, which are important.

I bet there’s a correlation between the number of words it takes to ask a question properly, and the difficulty in finding the answer by just searching with Google to begin with. Sites like AnswerBag seem mostly to be about soliciting opinions, anyway.