Filmed in the traditional pottery making villages, Onda and Koishibara on the island of Kyushu in Southern Japan. The film presents the workshops of Shigeki Sakamoto in Onda and Kumao Ohta in Koshibara.
An multi-award winning film, broadcast on PBS and around the world.
Brand New in Box with additonal colour pamphlet
Special edition DVD restored high definition master from the original negative.
Bonus features include:
- a documentary on the filming in Onda and Koishibara in 1976
- behind-the-scenes slideshows on the potters, their work and the filming
Reviews
" The viewer becomes a witness, not to an investigation of the ways of clay within a primitive society, but rather to the ways of pageantry within the commonplace. "
Craft Horizons
" Silence, time, patience, concentration; four elements elevate the ritual of art to the transcendent. Their convergence attains here the pinnacle of documentary art."
Vie des Arts
" ... a vision of creativity radically different from Western concepts of art-making."
Cinema Canada
" ...complex in its direct simplicity, and as a result, extraordinarily stimulating."
Mainichi Daily News
" We have the process and we are one with it. In conception and montage the film allows us no alternative .... aurally we have no tradition in this genre...sound on sound was never like this...Care and expertise in a complex art (filmmaking) make it seem so simple."
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Product Description
Four scenes from the daily work of traditional rural craftsmen. Filmed in Onda at the workshop of Kumao Ohta, and Koishibara at the workshop of Shigeki Sakamoto. Region Free DVD, playable in all regions. No dialogue, 30 minutes, colour. Re-mastered high definition digital transfer. Bonus features include documentary on the filming, and behind-the-scenes slideshows of the potters, their work, and the filming.
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