The Chair Maker: Lawrence Neal 2018 14’02”Director: Alex Rae Director of photography: Duncan Parker Executive producer: Hugo Burge Editor: Jack Roberts Edit producer: Mo Ahmed Colourist: Jon Howard Music: Jausme Stonkute, Isaac Ellis Graphics: Robbin Littlewood Researcher: Hattie Ellis Dubbing artist: Claudio Ahlers

The Chair Maker tells the story of Lawrence Neal and the ladderback, rush-seated chair tradition. Chair making is part of our ‘intangible cultural heritage’, a highly skilled process for which comprehensive instructions have been passed on between generations of masters and apprentices. Today the accumulated knowledge of over a hundred years of chair making resides with just one man.

Salmagundi: Intermission (2 of 3) 2019 0’18” Director: Simon Elvins, Adele Jeffs Pattern and textile design: Adele Jeffs 3D and motion: Simon Elvins Sound design: Tom Joyce (Sound Canvas)

The Shipworm and the Glory of Enkhuizen 2017 2’25”Director: Alexandre Humbert Producer: Zuiderzee Museum, NL Designer: Alexis Gautier With: Jaap Boers and Jos Jong Music: Arnaud Pujol Project curated by Jan Boelen (Z33), Evelien Bracke

Ptolemy Mann – Chromaticity 2017–18 2’40”Director: Third

Exploring the rhythmic physicality of contemporary weaving, this musical short reveals the unique process central to the work of artist Ptolemy Mann. The film takes us from the humble white cotton thread, through the dyeing stage and finally to the rigorous act of the weaving itself.

BEBENTO 2017 4’38”Director: Gaishi Kudo Fixperts: Gaishi Kudo, Madoka Yagi, Urara Nakayama, Ah Hyeon Kim Fix partner: Mr Nakagawa Educational institute: Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto Design Lab Advisors: Professors Katsuhiko Kushi, Takayuki Ikegawa, Julia Cassim, Frank Kolkman

Michio Nakagawa, a shoe- repair person in his 70s, lives in Kyoto. He moves location every day, but it takes him 40 minutes to unload and set up his stall. The Fixperts team of third-year design students from Kyoto Institute of Technology helped Mr Nakagawa by creating a portable storage and display system that could be easily transported and set up anywhere.

Peter Rowland: Egg Maker 20185’Director: Jared SchillerCamera, editor: Tim Knights Sound recordist: Adam Gutch Commissioner: Artangel

In 2017, replica birds’ egg craftsman Peter Rowland was approached by artist Andy Holden with a request to create thousands of eggs for an exhibition. In this documentary, Rowland talks about how he came to be an egg maker and gives an intimate insight into the way he works.

Space Debris:How It Was Made 201811‘Director: Kristin Sæterdal Production and music: RevolvermediaSupported by: Norwegian Association of Art and Craft (NK)

Kristin Sæterdal makes hand-woven tapestries with motifs inspired by sci-fi, technology and computer games. The film documents the making of ‘Space Debris’, from the dyeing of the yarn to the painstaking weaving process, and the ups and downs experienced by the maker throughout the six-month process.

Ngayuku Papa: Bluey and Big Boy 20182’14”Director, editor, producer, animator: Jonathan Daw Storyteller: Maureen ButlerCultural director: Dallas SmytheCharacter design and construction: Cynthia Burke, Dianne Golding, Loretta Carroll, Annieka Skinner Translation: Martha Ward, Dallas Smythe

In conversation with the Zuiderzee Museum’s blacksmith and gardener, designer Alexis Gautier uncovered stories about cross-pollination between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. He learned how a small exotic animal, the shipworm, became a disaster for the Zuiderzee’s dyke posts, and how a Dutch cabbage returned home after a long journey to the Far East.

Salmagundi:Intermission (3 of 3) 20190’26”Director: Simon Elvins, Adele Jeffs Pattern and textile design: Adele Jeffs 3D and motion: Simon Elvins Sound design: Tom Joyce (Sound Canvas)

How Do You Wear it? 20184’34”Director: Mia Rumble Featuring: Jenni Burrows Thanks to: Professor Sean Whittaker, Danuta Orlowska, Cath Morgans, Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation, Dr Sarah-Jane Burns

The film relates textile artist Jenni Burrows’ personal experience of living with cancer as a long-term condition. She creates interactive textiles that enable others to understand what it means to live with her condition and speaks of the beneficial impact of creativity on her health and wellbeing.

La Espiga20195’49”Director: Cameron G. Quevedo Producer: Alddo FloresEditor: Ariana TopkeCinematography: Ignacio Chávez, Aaron Chimal, Cameron G. QuevedoSound: Carlos SalazarPhotography: Natse Rojas Production assistant: Julián Alarcón, Miriam MartínezSpecial thanks: Tacho & Wendy Utrera, Don Isidro Nieves & Tía Licha, Sael Blanco, Alberto Alemán, Colectivo Altepee, Mauricio Durán, ValeriaGutiérrez, Pavel Toledano, José Omar Bueno Domínguez, Imagining America/JGS

Two Mexican musicians and master instrument builders, united by a shared tradition, discuss their lives, their music and their craft as they each make an ‘espiga’, a traditional guitar pick used in the son jarocho genre.

Stems20182’24”Film: Ainslie Henderson Music: Poppy Ackroyd

Stems is a collaboration between animator Ainslie Henderson and the musical artist Poppy Ackroyd. Unlike the traditional process wherein a film is completed and then delivered to the composer for scoring, they worked backwards. Ackroyd supplied elements – ‘stems’ – of the score, with Henderson making characters and instruments that looked like they might make the sounds, in response.

Welcome to Reel to Real: The Craft Film Festival.The UK’s only festival devoted to craft returns for its fourth

edition with a signature selection of engaging shorts exploringthe human relationship with making and materials.

This year, the Real to Reel selection panel was joined byknitter and filmmaker Lorna Hamilton-Brown MBE and GaryThomas, film programme manager at the British Council andco-director of Animate Projects. Together, we undertook thedifficult task of reviewing the hundreds of submissions receivedto select the 28 films featured in this programme.

The result is a unique opportunity to witness craft in actionand the narratives, passion and skill inherent in the creation ofworks. Again, the programme unites some unusual and perhapsunexpected tales of making – from miniatures, to replica birds’eggs, to a human powered bakery – along with animations thatbring to life fibre, wool, clay and found objects.

Submissions from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australiaand Europe contribute towards presenting a global perspectiveon making. In turn, the festival will reach international audiences,touring to venues and festivals following this London premiere.

Thank you for joining us this evening.

Reel to Real: The Craft Film Festival is produced by the Crafts Council in partnership with Picturehouse Central. For more information, and for touring schedule and enquiries, visit www.craftscouncil.org.uk/r2r

Graphic design: HyperkitGraphic production: SwallowtailAV production: Picturehouse Central

Crafts Council Registered Charity Number: 280956

In partnership with

Tjanpi sets and props: Nyangawarra Ward, Chriselda Farmer, Erica Shorty, Cynthia Burke, Dianne Golding, Annieka Skinner, Loretta Carroll, Winifred ReidTjanpi field officer: Annieka SkinnerSound: Jeremy Conlon (Left of Elephant Sound)Executive producer: Michelle Young

Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a social enterprise of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara(NPY) Women’s Council that enables women in the remote Central and Western desert regions of Australia to earn an income from fibre art. Ngaanyatjarra woman Maureen Butler tells the story of her hunting dogs Bluey and Big Boy, illustrated through stop-motion animation by Jonathan Daw.

SCREENING ONE

Sunday 16th February 10am

Salmagundi: Intermission (1 of 3) 2019 0’27”Director: Simon Elvins, Adele Jeffs Pattern and textile design: Adele Jeffs 3D and motion: Simon Elvins Sound design: Tom Joyce (Sound Canvas)

Salmagundi is a collaborative project between textile designer Adele Jeffs and graphic designer Simon Elvins. In her textile designs, Jeffs used digital tools and brushes in a way that was intentionally imperfect and freehand. Elvins was keen to explore how these textiles could have an alternate life in a digital space, and played with movement and material qualities.

With These Hands 2018 4’16”Director: Thea Stallwood Featuring: Kat Evans Production assistant: Joanne Ayre, Silverio Moreda Iglesias

The elemental nature of creating in clay comes to the fore in this short film about ceramist Kat Evans. Her asymmetrical sculptures speak of the processes that made them: pinching, coiling and paddling. Hours of careful and deliberate burnishing create a perfectly smooth canvas for a dramatic smoke firing.

SCREENING TWO

FRIDAY 23 AUGUST, 7pm

Life in Miniature20184’41”Director: Ellen Evans Director of photography: Thomas Doran Editor: Jon Crook Composer: Danyal DhondyColourist: Chris Bell Sound Design: Soundnode

Kath Holden is an artist of the everyday. Inspired by the world around her, Holden’s creations are whimsical yet keenly observed, and very different from the genteel museum pieces that her contemporaries are producing. A proud woman from Bradford, Holden reflects on her life and art as she carves a place for herself in the precious world of miniatures.

Andrew Burton: The Orangery Urns 20189’39”Director: Gary Malkin, Sarah BouttellCommissioner: Mapping Contemporary Art in the Heritage Experience Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council in partnership with Newcastle and Leeds Universities

Andrew Burton was commissioned to create works responding to Gibside, a National Trust property close to Newcastle upon Tyne. Burton’s response involved the creation of nine huge ceramic vessels and group of brightly glazed birds; each made and fired in his studio in Newcastle.

Amazing spectacles sculpted from scrap20183’49”Director, producer, camera, editor: Rachel Clara ReedSeries: BBC ReelSeries producer: Dan JohnMusic: Audio NetworkSongs: Happy Coincidence, Paul Mottram; Living Elements, Philip Guyler; Coffee Cup, Jason Pedder/Ashley Barnes/Douglas Brown; Hearts Ignite, Evelyn Glennie/Barrie Gledden/Chris Bussey

Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru transforms scrap metal into intricate eyewear, recounting the childhood memories that inspire his work. Driven by a desire to turn waste into something new, he makes use of recycled and found materials he picks up on the streets of Nairobi.

Moving Glass20182’30”Director and editor: Rosa Ruth Boesten Featuring: Bibi Smit Cinematography: Jurgen LisseGrading: Barend Onneweer Gaffer: Ralph SchoonenboomMusical composition and guitars: Wiek HijmansSound Design: Chris P. TrumanMix: Doris Veldman

Moving Glass offers insight into the practice of glassblower Bibi Smit, from the idea and the design to the blowing, cutting and polishing of the material. It reveals her fascination with hot fluid glass, and the possibilities it affords for playing with reflection, colour, light and texture.

Real to Reel: The Craft Film Festival

Be inspired by the passion of skilled makers a feast of short films exploring the humanrelationship with making and materials.

Screening 1: Sunday 16th February 10am-11.10am Theatre Royal Castlemaine

Witness scrap metal being transformed into intricate eyewear in Kenya, interwoven histories of a blacksmith and gardener, documentaries on British chair making and Mexican luthiers, and an animation from Australia’s Tjanpi Desert Weavers.

Screening 2: Sunday 16th February 11.30am-12.35pm Theatre Royal Castlemainea

Discover the tradition of making dance costumes in Mexico, a knitting evangelist’s insights into creativity and health, one of the oldest potteries in Japan, a retired Australian farmer turned artisan woodworker and an animation celebrating dogs in a remote Aboriginal community. craft.org.au/real-to-reel-film-festival

Purchase tickets at budacastlemaine.org/eventsor at the Theatre Royal box office on the day

Real to Reel: The Craft Film Festival is produced by the Crafts Council UK and Crafts magazine. Presented by Craft Victoria’s Craft Cubed Festival, supported by the City of Melbourne Triennial Arts Grants Program Tour to Australia courtesy of Maker&Smith.

The Chair Maker: Lawrence Neal 201814’02”Director: Alex Rae Director of photography: Duncan ParkerExecutive producer: Hugo BurgeEditor: Jack Roberts Edit producer: Mo Ahmed Colourist: Jon Howard Music: Jausme Stonkute, Isaac Ellis Graphics: Robbin LittlewoodResearcher: Hattie Ellis Dubbing artist: Claudio Ahlers

The Chair Maker tells the story of Lawrence Neal and the ladderback, rush-seated chair tradition. Chair making is part of our ‘intangible cultural heritage’, a highly skilled process for which comprehensive instructionshave been passed on between generations of masters and apprentices. Today the accumulated knowledge of over a hundred years of chair making resides with just one man.

Salmagundi:Intermission (2 of 3) 20190’18”Director: Simon Elvins, Adele Jeffs Pattern and textile design: Adele Jeffs 3D and motion: Simon Elvins Sound design: Tom Joyce (Sound Canvas)

The Shipworm and the Glory of Enkhuizen 20172’25”Director: Alexandre HumbertProducer: Zuiderzee Museum, NL Designer: Alexis GautierWith: Jaap Boers and Jos JongMusic: Arnaud PujolProject curated by Jan Boelen (Z33), Evelien Bracke

Ptolemy Mann – Chromaticity2017–182’40”Director: Third

Exploring the rhythmic physicality of contemporary weaving, this musical short reveals the unique process central to the work of artist Ptolemy Mann. The film takes us from the humble white cotton thread, through the dyeing stage and finally to the rigorous act of the weaving itself.

BEBENTO20174’38”Director: Gaishi Kudo Fixperts: Gaishi Kudo, Madoka Yagi, Urara Nakayama, Ah Hyeon Kim Fix partner: Mr Nakagawa Educational institute: Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto Design Lab Advisors: Professors Katsuhiko Kushi, Takayuki Ikegawa, Julia Cassim, Frank Kolkman

Michio Nakagawa, a shoe-repair person in his 70s, lives in Kyoto. He moves location every day, but it takes him 40 minutes to unload and set up his stall. The Fixperts team of third-year design students from Kyoto Institute of Technology helped Mr Nakagawa by creating a portable storage and display system that could be easily transported and set up anywhere.

Peter Rowland: Egg Maker 20185’Director: Jared SchillerCamera, editor: Tim Knights Sound recordist: Adam Gutch Commissioner: Artangel

In 2017, replica birds’ egg craftsman Peter Rowland was approached by artist Andy Holden with a request to create thousands of eggs for an exhibition. In this documentary, Rowland talks about how he came to be an egg maker and gives an intimate insight into the way he works.

Space Debris:How It Was Made 201811‘Director: Kristin Sæterdal Production and music: RevolvermediaSupported by: Norwegian Association of Art and Craft (NK)

Kristin Sæterdal makes hand-woven tapestries with motifs inspired by sci-fi, technology and computer games. The film documents the making of ‘Space Debris’, from the dyeing of the yarn to the painstaking weaving process, and the ups and downs experienced by the maker throughout the six-month process.

Ngayuku Papa: Bluey and Big Boy 20182’14”Director, editor, producer, animator: Jonathan Daw Storyteller: Maureen ButlerCultural director: Dallas SmytheCharacter design and construction: Cynthia Burke, Dianne Golding, Loretta Carroll, Annieka Skinner Translation: Martha Ward, Dallas Smythe

In conversation with the Zuiderzee Museum’s blacksmith and gardener, designer Alexis Gautier uncovered stories about cross-pollination between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. He learned how a small exotic animal, the shipworm, became a disaster for the Zuiderzee’s dyke posts, and how a Dutch cabbage returned home after a long journey to the Far East.

Salmagundi: Intermission (3 of 3) 2019 0’26”Director: Simon Elvins, Adele Jeffs Pattern and textile design: Adele Jeffs 3D and motion: Simon Elvins Sound design: Tom Joyce (Sound Canvas)

How Do You Wear it? 2018 4’34”Director: Mia Rumble Featuring: Jenni Burrows Thanks to: Professor Sean Whittaker, Danuta Orlowska, Cath Morgans, Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation, Dr Sarah-Jane Burns

The film relates textile artist Jenni Burrows’ personal experience of living with cancer as a long-term condition. She creates interactive textiles that enable others to understand what it means to live with her condition and speaks of the beneficial impact of creativity on her health and wellbeing.

La Espiga 2019 5’49”Director: Cameron G. Quevedo Producer: Alddo Flores Editor: Ariana Topke Cinematography: Ignacio Chávez, Aaron Chimal, Cameron G. Quevedo Sound: Carlos Salazar Photography: Natse Rojas Production assistant: Julián Alarcón, Miriam Martínez Special thanks: Tacho & Wendy Utrera, Don Isidro Nieves & Tía Licha, Sael Blanco, Alberto Alemán, Colectivo Altepee, Mauricio Durán, Valeria Gutiérrez, Pavel Toledano, José Omar Bueno Domínguez, Imagining America/JGS

Two Mexican musicians and master instrument builders, united by a shared tradition, discuss their lives, their music and their craft as they each make an ‘espiga’, a traditional guitar pick used in the son jarocho genre.

Stems 2018 2’24”Film: Ainslie Henderson Music: Poppy Ackroyd

Stems is a collaboration between animator Ainslie Henderson and the musical artist Poppy Ackroyd. Unlike the traditional process wherein a film is completed and then delivered to the composer for scoring, they worked backwards. Ackroyd supplied elements – ‘stems’ – of the score, with Henderson making characters and instruments that looked like they might make the sounds, in response.

Welcome to Reel to Real: The Craft Film Festival.The UK’s only festival devoted to craft returns for its fourth

edition with a signature selection of engaging shorts exploringthe human relationship with making and materials.

This year, the Real to Reel selection panel was joined byknitter and filmmaker Lorna Hamilton-Brown MBE and GaryThomas, film programme manager at the British Council andco-director of Animate Projects. Together, we undertook thedifficult task of reviewing the hundreds of submissions receivedto select the 28 films featured in this programme.

The result is a unique opportunity to witness craft in actionand the narratives, passion and skill inherent in the creation ofworks. Again, the programme unites some unusual and perhapsunexpected tales of making – from miniatures, to replica birds’eggs, to a human powered bakery – along with animations thatbring to life fibre, wool, clay and found objects.

Submissions from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australiaand Europe contribute towards presenting a global perspectiveon making. In turn, the festival will reach international audiences,touring to venues and festivals following this London premiere.

Thank you for joining us this evening.

Reel to Real: The Craft Film Festival is produced by the Crafts Council in partnership with Picturehouse Central. For more information, and for touring schedule and enquiries, visit www.craftscouncil.org.uk/r2r

Graphic design: HyperkitGraphic production: SwallowtailAV production: Picturehouse Central

Crafts Council Registered Charity Number: 280956

In partnership with

Tjanpi sets and props: Nyangawarra Ward, Chriselda Farmer, Erica Shorty, Cynthia Burke, Dianne Golding, Annieka Skinner, Loretta Carroll, Winifred ReidTjanpi field officer: Annieka SkinnerSound: Jeremy Conlon (Left of Elephant Sound)Executive producer: Michelle Young

Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a social enterprise of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara(NPY) Women’s Council that enables women in the remote Central and Western desert regions of Australia to earn an income from fibre art. Ngaanyatjarra woman Maureen Butler tells the story of her hunting dogs Bluey and Big Boy, illustrated through stop-motion animation by Jonathan Daw.

SCREENING ONE

THURSDAY 22 AUGUST, 7pm

Salmagundi:Intermission (1 of 3) 20190’27”Director: Simon Elvins, Adele Jeffs Pattern and textile design: Adele Jeffs 3D and motion: Simon Elvins Sound design: Tom Joyce (Sound Canvas)

Salmagundi is a collaborative project between textile designer Adele Jeffs and graphic designer Simon Elvins. In her textile designs, Jeffs used digital tools and brushes in a way that was intentionally imperfect and freehand. Elvins was keen to explore how these textiles could have an alternate life in a digital space, and played with movement and material qualities.

With These Hands 20184’16”Director: Thea Stallwood Featuring: Kat Evans Production assistant: Joanne Ayre, Silverio Moreda Iglesias

The elemental nature of creating in clay comes to the fore in this short film about ceramist Kat Evans. Her asymmetrical sculptures speak of the processes that made them: pinching, coiling and paddling. Hours of careful and deliberate burnishing create a perfectly smooth canvas for a dramatic smoke firing.

SCREENING TWO

FRIDAY 23 AUGUST, 7pm

Life in Miniature20184’41”Director: Ellen Evans Director of photography: Thomas Doran Editor: Jon Crook Composer: Danyal DhondyColourist: Chris Bell Sound Design: Soundnode

Kath Holden is an artist of the everyday. Inspired by the world around her, Holden’s creations are whimsical yet keenly observed, and very different from the genteel museum pieces that her contemporaries are producing. A proud woman from Bradford, Holden reflects on her life and art as she carves a place for herself in the precious world of miniatures.

Andrew Burton: The Orangery Urns 20189’39”Director: Gary Malkin, Sarah BouttellCommissioner: Mapping Contemporary Art in the Heritage Experience Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council in partnership with Newcastle and Leeds Universities

Andrew Burton was commissioned to create works responding to Gibside, a National Trust property close to Newcastle upon Tyne. Burton’s response involved the creation of nine huge ceramic vessels and group of brightly glazed birds; each made and fired in his studio in Newcastle.

Amazing spectacles sculpted from scrap20183’49”Director, producer, camera, editor: Rachel Clara ReedSeries: BBC ReelSeries producer: Dan JohnMusic: Audio NetworkSongs: Happy Coincidence, Paul Mottram; Living Elements, Philip Guyler; Coffee Cup, Jason Pedder/Ashley Barnes/Douglas Brown; Hearts Ignite, Evelyn Glennie/Barrie Gledden/Chris Bussey

Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru transforms scrap metal into intricate eyewear, recounting the childhood memories that inspire his work. Driven by a desire to turn waste into something new, he makes use of recycled and found materials he picks up on the streets of Nairobi.

Moving Glass20182’30”Director and editor: Rosa Ruth Boesten Featuring: Bibi Smit Cinematography: Jurgen LisseGrading: Barend Onneweer Gaffer: Ralph SchoonenboomMusical composition and guitars: Wiek HijmansSound Design: Chris P. TrumanMix: Doris Veldman

Moving Glass offers insight into the practice of glassblower Bibi Smit, from the idea and the design to the blowing, cutting and polishing of the material. It reveals her fascination with hot fluid glass, and the possibilities it affords for playing with reflection, colour, light and texture.

The Chair Maker: Lawrence Neal 201814’02”Director: Alex Rae Director of photography: Duncan ParkerExecutive producer: Hugo BurgeEditor: Jack Roberts Edit producer: Mo Ahmed Colourist: Jon Howard Music: Jausme Stonkute, Isaac Ellis Graphics: Robbin LittlewoodResearcher: Hattie Ellis Dubbing artist: Claudio Ahlers

The Chair Maker tells the story of Lawrence Neal and the ladderback, rush-seated chair tradition. Chair making is part of our ‘intangible cultural heritage’, a highly skilled process for which comprehensive instructionshave been passed on between generations of masters and apprentices. Today the accumulated knowledge of over a hundred years of chair making resides with just one man.

Salmagundi:Intermission (2 of 3) 20190’18”Director: Simon Elvins, Adele Jeffs Pattern and textile design: Adele Jeffs 3D and motion: Simon Elvins Sound design: Tom Joyce (Sound Canvas)

The Shipworm and the Glory of Enkhuizen 20172’25”Director: Alexandre HumbertProducer: Zuiderzee Museum, NL Designer: Alexis GautierWith: Jaap Boers and Jos JongMusic: Arnaud PujolProject curated by Jan Boelen (Z33), Evelien Bracke

Ptolemy Mann – Chromaticity2017–182’40”Director: Third

Exploring the rhythmic physicality of contemporary weaving, this musical short reveals the unique process central to the work of artist Ptolemy Mann. The film takes us from the humble white cotton thread, through the dyeing stage and finally to the rigorous act of the weaving itself.

BEBENTO20174’38”Director: Gaishi Kudo Fixperts: Gaishi Kudo, Madoka Yagi, Urara Nakayama, Ah Hyeon Kim Fix partner: Mr Nakagawa Educational institute: Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto Design Lab Advisors: Professors Katsuhiko Kushi, Takayuki Ikegawa, Julia Cassim, Frank Kolkman

Michio Nakagawa, a shoe-repair person in his 70s, lives in Kyoto. He moves location every day, but it takes him 40 minutes to unload and set up his stall. The Fixperts team of third-year design students from Kyoto Institute of Technology helped Mr Nakagawa by creating a portable storage and display system that could be easily transported and set up anywhere.

Peter Rowland: Egg Maker 20185’Director: Jared SchillerCamera, editor: Tim Knights Sound recordist: Adam Gutch Commissioner: Artangel

In 2017, replica birds’ egg craftsman Peter Rowland was approached by artist Andy Holden with a request to create thousands of eggs for an exhibition. In this documentary, Rowland talks about how he came to be an egg maker and gives an intimate insight into the way he works.

Space Debris:How It Was Made 201811‘Director: Kristin Sæterdal Production and music: RevolvermediaSupported by: Norwegian Association of Art and Craft (NK)

Kristin Sæterdal makes hand-woven tapestries with motifs inspired by sci-fi, technology and computer games. The film documents the making of ‘Space Debris’, from the dyeing of the yarn to the painstaking weaving process, and the ups and downs experienced by the maker throughout the six-month process.

Ngayuku Papa: Bluey and Big Boy 20182’14”Director, editor, producer, animator: Jonathan Daw Storyteller: Maureen ButlerCultural director: Dallas SmytheCharacter design and construction: Cynthia Burke, Dianne Golding, Loretta Carroll, Annieka Skinner Translation: Martha Ward, Dallas Smythe

In conversation with the Zuiderzee Museum’s blacksmith and gardener, designer Alexis Gautier uncovered stories about cross-pollination between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. He learned how a small exotic animal, the shipworm, became a disaster for the Zuiderzee’s dyke posts, and how a Dutch cabbage returned home after a long journey to the Far East.

Salmagundi:Intermission (3 of 3) 20190’26”Director: Simon Elvins, Adele Jeffs Pattern and textile design: Adele Jeffs 3D and motion: Simon Elvins Sound design: Tom Joyce (Sound Canvas)

How Do You Wear it? 20184’34”Director: Mia Rumble Featuring: Jenni Burrows Thanks to: Professor Sean Whittaker, Danuta Orlowska, Cath Morgans, Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation, Dr Sarah-Jane Burns

The film relates textile artist Jenni Burrows’ personal experience of living with cancer as a long-term condition. She creates interactive textiles that enable others to understand what it means to live with her condition and speaks of the beneficial impact of creativity on her health and wellbeing.

La Espiga20195’49”Director: Cameron G. Quevedo Producer: Alddo FloresEditor: Ariana TopkeCinematography: Ignacio Chávez, Aaron Chimal, Cameron G. QuevedoSound: Carlos SalazarPhotography: Natse Rojas Production assistant: Julián Alarcón, Miriam MartínezSpecial thanks: Tacho & Wendy Utrera, Don Isidro Nieves & Tía Licha, Sael Blanco, Alberto Alemán, Colectivo Altepee, Mauricio Durán, ValeriaGutiérrez, Pavel Toledano, José Omar Bueno Domínguez, Imagining America/JGS

Two Mexican musicians and master instrument builders, united by a shared tradition, discuss their lives, their music and their craft as they each make an ‘espiga’, a traditional guitar pick used in the son jarocho genre.

Stems20182’24”Film: Ainslie Henderson Music: Poppy Ackroyd

Stems is a collaboration between animator Ainslie Henderson and the musical artist Poppy Ackroyd. Unlike the traditional process wherein a film is completed and then delivered to the composer for scoring, they worked backwards. Ackroyd supplied elements – ‘stems’ – of the score, with Henderson making characters and instruments that looked like they might make the sounds, in response.

Welcome to Reel to Real: The Craft Film Festival.The UK’s only festival devoted to craft returns for its fourth

edition with a signature selection of engaging shorts exploringthe human relationship with making and materials.

This year, the Real to Reel selection panel was joined byknitter and filmmaker Lorna Hamilton-Brown MBE and GaryThomas, film programme manager at the British Council andco-director of Animate Projects. Together, we undertook thedifficult task of reviewing the hundreds of submissions receivedto select the 28 films featured in this programme.

The result is a unique opportunity to witness craft in actionand the narratives, passion and skill inherent in the creation ofworks. Again, the programme unites some unusual and perhapsunexpected tales of making – from miniatures, to replica birds’eggs, to a human powered bakery – along with animations thatbring to life fibre, wool, clay and found objects.

Submissions from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australiaand Europe contribute towards presenting a global perspectiveon making. In turn, the festival will reach international audiences,touring to venues and festivals following this London premiere.

Thank you for joining us this evening.

Reel to Real: The Craft Film Festival is produced by the Crafts Council in partnership with Picturehouse Central. For more information, and for touring schedule and enquiries, visit www.craftscouncil.org.uk/r2r

Graphic design: HyperkitGraphic production: SwallowtailAV production: Picturehouse Central

Crafts Council Registered Charity Number: 280956

In partnership with

Tjanpi sets and props: Nyangawarra Ward, Chriselda Farmer, Erica Shorty, Cynthia Burke, Dianne Golding, Annieka Skinner, Loretta Carroll, Winifred ReidTjanpi field officer: Annieka SkinnerSound: Jeremy Conlon (Left of Elephant Sound)Executive producer: Michelle Young

Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a social enterprise of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara(NPY) Women’s Council that enables women in the remote Central and Western desert regions of Australia to earn an income from fibre art. Ngaanyatjarra woman Maureen Butler tells the story of her hunting dogs Bluey and Big Boy, illustrated through stop-motion animation by Jonathan Daw.

SCREENING ONE

THURSDAY 22 AUGUST, 7pm

Salmagundi:Intermission (1 of 3) 20190’27”Director: Simon Elvins, Adele Jeffs Pattern and textile design: Adele Jeffs 3D and motion: Simon Elvins Sound design: Tom Joyce (Sound Canvas)

Salmagundi is a collaborative project between textile designer Adele Jeffs and graphic designer Simon Elvins. In her textile designs, Jeffs used digital tools and brushes in a way that was intentionally imperfect and freehand. Elvins was keen to explore how these textiles could have an alternate life in a digital space, and played with movement and material qualities.

With These Hands 20184’16”Director: Thea Stallwood Featuring: Kat Evans Production assistant: Joanne Ayre, Silverio Moreda Iglesias

The elemental nature of creating in clay comes to the fore in this short film about ceramist Kat Evans. Her asymmetrical sculptures speak of the processes that made them: pinching, coiling and paddling. Hours of careful and deliberate burnishing create a perfectly smooth canvas for a dramatic smoke firing.

SCREENING TWO

Sunday 16th February 11.30am

Life in Miniature 2018 4’41”Director: Ellen Evans Director of photography: Thomas Doran Editor: Jon Crook Composer: Danyal Dhondy Colourist: Chris Bell Sound Design: Soundnode

Kath Holden is an artist of the everyday. Inspired by the world around her, Holden’s creations are whimsical yet keenly observed, and very different from the genteel museum pieces that her contemporaries are producing. A proud woman from Bradford, Holden reflects on her life and art as she carves a place for herself in the precious world of miniatures.

Andrew Burton: The Orangery Urns 2018 9’39”Director: Gary Malkin, Sarah Bouttell Commissioner: Mapping Contemporary Art in the Heritage Experience Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council in partnership with Newcastle and Leeds Universities

Andrew Burton was commissioned to create works responding to Gibside, a National Trust property close to Newcastle upon Tyne. Burton’s response involved the creation of nine huge ceramic vessels and group of brightly glazed birds; each made and fired in his studio in Newcastle.

Amazing spectacles sculpted from scrap20183’49”Director, producer, camera, editor: Rachel Clara ReedSeries: BBC ReelSeries producer: Dan JohnMusic: Audio NetworkSongs: Happy Coincidence, Paul Mottram; Living Elements, Philip Guyler; Coffee Cup, Jason Pedder/Ashley Barnes/Douglas Brown; Hearts Ignite, Evelyn Glennie/Barrie Gledden/Chris Bussey

Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru transforms scrap metal into intricate eyewear, recounting the childhood memories that inspire his work. Driven by a desire to turn waste into something new, he makes use of recycled and found materials he picks up on the streets of Nairobi.

Moving Glass20182’30”Director and editor: Rosa Ruth Boesten Featuring: Bibi Smit Cinematography: Jurgen LisseGrading: Barend Onneweer Gaffer: Ralph SchoonenboomMusical composition and guitars: Wiek HijmansSound Design: Chris P. TrumanMix: Doris Veldman

Moving Glass offers insight into the practice of glassblower Bibi Smit, from the idea and the design to the blowing, cutting and polishing of the material. It reveals her fascination with hot fluid glass, and the possibilities it affords for playing with reflection, colour, light and texture.

The Chair Maker: Lawrence Neal 201814’02”Director: Alex Rae Director of photography: Duncan ParkerExecutive producer: Hugo BurgeEditor: Jack Roberts Edit producer: Mo Ahmed Colourist: Jon Howard Music: Jausme Stonkute, Isaac Ellis Graphics: Robbin LittlewoodResearcher: Hattie Ellis Dubbing artist: Claudio Ahlers

The Chair Maker tells the story of Lawrence Neal and the ladderback, rush-seated chair tradition. Chair making is part of our ‘intangible cultural heritage’, a highly skilled process for which comprehensive instructionshave been passed on between generations of masters and apprentices. Today the accumulated knowledge of over a hundred years of chair making resides with just one man.

Salmagundi:Intermission (2 of 3) 20190’18”Director: Simon Elvins, Adele Jeffs Pattern and textile design: Adele Jeffs 3D and motion: Simon Elvins Sound design: Tom Joyce (Sound Canvas)

The Shipworm and the Glory of Enkhuizen 20172’25”Director: Alexandre HumbertProducer: Zuiderzee Museum, NL Designer: Alexis GautierWith: Jaap Boers and Jos JongMusic: Arnaud PujolProject curated by Jan Boelen (Z33), Evelien Bracke

Ptolemy Mann – Chromaticity2017–182’40”Director: Third

Exploring the rhythmic physicality of contemporary weaving, this musical short reveals the unique process central to the work of artist Ptolemy Mann. The film takes us from the humble white cotton thread, through the dyeing stage and finally to the rigorous act of the weaving itself.

BEBENTO20174’38”Director: Gaishi Kudo Fixperts: Gaishi Kudo, Madoka Yagi, Urara Nakayama, Ah Hyeon Kim Fix partner: Mr Nakagawa Educational institute: Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto Design Lab Advisors: Professors Katsuhiko Kushi, Takayuki Ikegawa, Julia Cassim, Frank Kolkman

Michio Nakagawa, a shoe-repair person in his 70s, lives in Kyoto. He moves location every day, but it takes him 40 minutes to unload and set up his stall. The Fixperts team of third-year design students from Kyoto Institute of Technology helped Mr Nakagawa by creating a portable storage and display system that could be easily transported and set up anywhere.

Peter Rowland: Egg Maker 2018 5’Director: Jared Schiller Camera, editor: Tim Knights Sound recordist: Adam Gutch Commissioner: Artangel

In 2017, replica birds’ egg craftsman Peter Rowland was approached by artist Andy Holden with a request to create thousands of eggs for an exhibition. In this documentary, Rowland talks about how he came to be an egg maker and gives an intimate insight into the way he works.

Space Debris: How It Was Made 2018 11‘Director: Kristin Sæterdal Production and music: Revolvermedia Supported by: Norwegian Association of Art and Craft (NK)

Kristin Sæterdal makes hand-woven tapestries with motifs inspired by sci-fi, technology and computer games. The film documents the making of ‘Space Debris’, from the dyeing of the yarn to the painstaking weaving process, and the ups and downs experienced by the maker throughout the six-month process.

Ngayuku Papa: Bluey and Big Boy 2018 2’14”Director, editor, producer, animator: Jonathan Daw Storyteller: Maureen Butler Cultural director: Dallas Smythe Character design and construction: Cynthia Burke, Dianne Golding, Loretta Carroll, Annieka Skinner Translation: Martha Ward, Dallas Smythe

In conversation with the Zuiderzee Museum’s blacksmith and gardener, designer Alexis Gautier uncovered stories about cross-pollination between the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. He learned how a small exotic animal, the shipworm, became a disaster for the Zuiderzee’s dyke posts, and how a Dutch cabbage returned home after a long journey to the Far East.

Salmagundi:Intermission (3 of 3) 20190’26”Director: Simon Elvins, Adele Jeffs Pattern and textile design: Adele Jeffs 3D and motion: Simon Elvins Sound design: Tom Joyce (Sound Canvas)

How Do You Wear it? 20184’34”Director: Mia Rumble Featuring: Jenni Burrows Thanks to: Professor Sean Whittaker, Danuta Orlowska, Cath Morgans, Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation, Dr Sarah-Jane Burns

The film relates textile artist Jenni Burrows’ personal experience of living with cancer as a long-term condition. She creates interactive textiles that enable others to understand what it means to live with her condition and speaks of the beneficial impact of creativity on her health and wellbeing.

La Espiga20195’49”Director: Cameron G. Quevedo Producer: Alddo FloresEditor: Ariana TopkeCinematography: Ignacio Chávez, Aaron Chimal, Cameron G. QuevedoSound: Carlos SalazarPhotography: Natse Rojas Production assistant: Julián Alarcón, Miriam MartínezSpecial thanks: Tacho & Wendy Utrera, Don Isidro Nieves & Tía Licha, Sael Blanco, Alberto Alemán, Colectivo Altepee, Mauricio Durán, ValeriaGutiérrez, Pavel Toledano, José Omar Bueno Domínguez, Imagining America/JGS

Two Mexican musicians and master instrument builders, united by a shared tradition, discuss their lives, their music and their craft as they each make an ‘espiga’, a traditional guitar pick used in the son jarocho genre.

Stems20182’24”Film: Ainslie Henderson Music: Poppy Ackroyd

Stems is a collaboration between animator Ainslie Henderson and the musical artist Poppy Ackroyd. Unlike the traditional process wherein a film is completed and then delivered to the composer for scoring, they worked backwards. Ackroyd supplied elements – ‘stems’ – of the score, with Henderson making characters and instruments that looked like they might make the sounds, in response.

Welcome to Reel to Real: The Craft Film Festival.The UK’s only festival devoted to craft returns for its fourth

edition with a signature selection of engaging shorts exploringthe human relationship with making and materials.

This year, the Real to Reel selection panel was joined byknitter and filmmaker Lorna Hamilton-Brown MBE and GaryThomas, film programme manager at the British Council andco-director of Animate Projects. Together, we undertook thedifficult task of reviewing the hundreds of submissions receivedto select the 28 films featured in this programme.

The result is a unique opportunity to witness craft in actionand the narratives, passion and skill inherent in the creation ofworks. Again, the programme unites some unusual and perhapsunexpected tales of making – from miniatures, to replica birds’eggs, to a human powered bakery – along with animations thatbring to life fibre, wool, clay and found objects.

Submissions from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australiaand Europe contribute towards presenting a global perspectiveon making. In turn, the festival will reach international audiences,touring to venues and festivals following this London premiere.

Thank you for joining us this evening.

Reel to Real: The Craft Film Festival is produced by the Crafts Council in partnership with Picturehouse Central. For more information, and for touring schedule and enquiries, visit www.craftscouncil.org.uk/r2r

Graphic design: HyperkitGraphic production: SwallowtailAV production: Picturehouse Central

Crafts Council Registered Charity Number: 280956

In partnership with

Tjanpi sets and props: Nyangawarra Ward, Chriselda Farmer, Erica Shorty, Cynthia Burke, Dianne Golding, Annieka Skinner, Loretta Carroll, Winifred Reid Tjanpi field officer: Annieka Skinner Sound: Jeremy Conlon (Left of Elephant Sound) Executive producer: Michelle Young

Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a social enterprise of the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council that enables women in the remote Central and Western desert regions of Australia to earn an income from fibre art. Ngaanyatjarra woman Maureen Butler tells the story of her hunting dogs Bluey and Big Boy, illustrated through stop-motion animation by Jonathan Daw.

SCREENING ONE

THURSDAY 22 AUGUST, 7pm

Salmagundi:Intermission (1 of 3) 20190’27”Director: Simon Elvins, Adele Jeffs Pattern and textile design: Adele Jeffs 3D and motion: Simon Elvins Sound design: Tom Joyce (Sound Canvas)

Salmagundi is a collaborative project between textile designer Adele Jeffs and graphic designer Simon Elvins. In her textile designs, Jeffs used digital tools and brushes in a way that was intentionally imperfect and freehand. Elvins was keen to explore how these textiles could have an alternate life in a digital space, and played with movement and material qualities.

With These Hands 20184’16”Director: Thea Stallwood Featuring: Kat Evans Production assistant: Joanne Ayre, Silverio Moreda Iglesias

The elemental nature of creating in clay comes to the fore in this short film about ceramist Kat Evans. Her asymmetrical sculptures speak of the processes that made them: pinching, coiling and paddling. Hours of careful and deliberate burnishing create a perfectly smooth canvas for a dramatic smoke firing.

SCREENING TWO

FRIDAY 23 AUGUST, 7pm

Life in Miniature20184’41”Director: Ellen Evans Director of photography: Thomas Doran Editor: Jon Crook Composer: Danyal DhondyColourist: Chris Bell Sound Design: Soundnode

Kath Holden is an artist of the everyday. Inspired by the world around her, Holden’s creations are whimsical yet keenly observed, and very different from the genteel museum pieces that her contemporaries are producing. A proud woman from Bradford, Holden reflects on her life and art as she carves a place for herself in the precious world of miniatures.

Andrew Burton: The Orangery Urns 20189’39”Director: Gary Malkin, Sarah BouttellCommissioner: Mapping Contemporary Art in the Heritage Experience Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council in partnership with Newcastle and Leeds Universities

Andrew Burton was commissioned to create works responding to Gibside, a National Trust property close to Newcastle upon Tyne. Burton’s response involved the creation of nine huge ceramic vessels and group of brightly glazed birds; each made and fired in his studio in Newcastle.

Amazing spectacles sculpted from scrap 2018 3’49”Director, producer, camera, editor: Rachel Clara Reed Series: BBC Reel Series producer: Dan John Music: Audio Network Songs: Happy Coincidence, Paul Mottram; Living Elements, Philip Guyler; Coffee Cup, Jason Pedder/Ashley Barnes/Douglas Brown; Hearts Ignite, Evelyn Glennie/ Barrie Gledden/Chris Bussey

Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru transforms scrap metal into intricate eyewear, recounting the childhood memories that inspire his work. Driven by a desire to turn waste into something new, he makes use of recycled and found materials he picks up on the streets of Nairobi.

Moving Glass 2018 2’30”Director and editor: Rosa Ruth Boesten Featuring: Bibi Smit Cinematography: Jurgen Lisse Grading: Barend Onneweer Gaffer: Ralph Schoonenboom Musical composition and guitars: Wiek Hijmans Sound Design: Chris P. Truman Mix: Doris Veldman

Moving Glass offers insight into the practice of glassblower Bibi Smit, from the idea and the design to the blowing, cutting and polishing of the material. It reveals her fascination with hot fluid glass, and the possibilities it affords for playing with reflection, colour, light and texture.

SATELLITE EVENTScreen for Another Focus

Lives of Clay 20182’06”Director (film): Zoe Manders Concept: Vidya ThirunarayanDirector (theatre): Tim Supple Choreographer: Debbie Fionn BarrDramaturgy: Katie Ebner-LandyPerformers: Vidya Thirunarayan, Lee Hart and Barry Ganberg Music: K.S. Bhavani ShankarArtistic director: The Clay Connection Studio production support: Art Asia, Farnham Maltings, Arts Council England

Clay is universal and can be transformed into something that carries meaning or purpose by simple means. Bharatanatyam (Indian classical dance) is nuanced, detailed, dynamic and highly expressive. Together, the two mediums offer a rich palette with which to perform and tell stories.

Tricotone 1 Part 2 20191’”Director: Sam Meech

Neil Turner Artisan 20182’50”Director: Rae Fallon Music: Joel Ritchie

Neil Turner was a West Australian farmer all his life, but from the age of 18, he pursued woodturning as a creative outlet, working in his shed at the end of every day. Upon retiring, he has been able to dedicate his time entirely to creating highly complex turned pieces from native Australian wood.

Carbon Copy20172’04”Director: Marc Cowan Project assistant: Staffan Gnosspelius Additional film work: Lewis Davies Support: Ian Baldwin, Krystle Shard, Tom Drury, Ella WilliamsMusic: Penguin Cafe Orchestra Funder: Lambeth Council and Loughborough Junction ActionGroup, as part of a Sustrans route and regeneration project

The film documents the making of ten individual bollards that act as sculptural signposts to South London’s secluded Ruskin Park. Cast directly from three different species of tree salvaged from the park, they each have a breed and grid-reference, allowing passers-by to identify where the original tree is growing.

Tricotone 1 Part 3 20191’”Director: Sam Meech

Tjanpi sets and props: Nyangawarra Ward, Chriselda Farmer, Erica Shorty, Cynthia Burke, Dianne Golding, Annieka Skinner, Loretta Carroll, Winifred Reid Editor and producer: Jonathan Daw Tjanpi field officer: Annieka Skinner Sound: Jeremy Conlon (Left of Elephant Sound) Executive producer: Michelle Young

Ngaanyatjarra woman Cynthia Burke shares a tale of the special role that dogs play in remote community life with this stop-motion animation by Jonathan Daw. The Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council enables women in the remote Central and Western desert regions of Australia to earn an income from fibre art.

Sawmaking 6’15” 2018Director: Jacob Hesmondhalgh-Scott / Honeybee Pictures Featuring: Shane Skelton

An observational portrait of master saw maker Shane Skelton. Inspired by his grandfather’s favourite saying ‘buy cheap, buy twice’, Skelton creates saws of the utmost quality. He himself uses the finest quality tools, including some inherited from his grandfather.

Asahiyaki 2017 4’27”Director, cinematography, editor: Robert Wiezorek Sound: Daniel Migge Consultant: Jun Schaeffer

A portrait of one of the oldest potteries making traditional tea ceremony bowls in Japan. Today, the master represents the 16th generation of his family, reflecting on his passion, tradition and artisanship.

Clay 2056 2016 1’24”Director: Niels Hoebers Concept and animation: Niels Hoebers and Maarten Baas Music: Kevin Macleod

In his humorous and rebellious work, Maarten Baas, one of the Netherlands’ best-known designers, blends design with art forms including film and theatre. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of his CLAY furniture collection, he collaborated with animator Niels Hoebers to create a speculative stop-motion piece celebrating 50 years of the CLAY collection.

Brawn & Bread 2018 8’22”Director: Studio MICAT Thanks to: staff and campers at Beam Camp

Brawn & Bread is an outdoor gym that makes bread, using human power to process the grain, knead dough and fuel a wood-fired oven. The project was designed by UK designers Studio MICAT and was built by campers, aged 11–17, at Beam Camp, New Hampshire. The structure is designed to make a performance of the processes that go into producing this daily essential.

Ngayuku Papa: Tiny 2017 2’48”Director: Jonathan Daw and Cynthia Burke Story: Cynthia Burke Character design and construction: Cynthia Burke, Dianne Golding, Annieka Skinner Translation: Martha Ward, Cynthia Burke

What’s Your Craft: Craftivist Carrie Reichardt 20183’29”Director: William ScothernProducer: Sara KhanAssistant producer: Karen d’ArcangeloCommissioner: Crafts Council

A look behind the scenes at the practice of craftivist Carrie Reichardt who uses mosaic to create intricate, politicised works of art. Reichardt passionately believes in the power of craft to open up dialogue about sensitive issues. She has used her skills as a vehicle for her own political activism, most notably, her campaigning for prisoners on Death Row.

Knitting the Blues20183’06”Director: Lorna Hamilton-Brown Camera: Lorna Hamilton-Brown, Chris Hamilton-Brown, Indiana Hamilton-Brown, Phoebe Corker-Marin, Ian GabbPhotography: Lorna Hamilton-Brown, Chris Hamilton-Brown Illustration, edit and song lyrics: Lorna Hamilton-Brown Music: Finger Burner, OurMusicBox.comCameo appearances: Kaffe Fassett, Brandon Mably, Jeanette Sloan, Laduma Ngxokolo and João CaldasNail Art: Sky’s House of Nails

Lorna Hamilton-Brown describes herself as a knitting evangelist and strives to make work that is accessible to people outside of the gallery context. Her latest music video promotes the therapeutic benefits of knitting for mental wellbeing and seeks to break the stigma of talking about mental health.

Tricotone 1 Part 1 2019 1’ Director: Sam Meech

Sam Meech’s practice combines digital image-making, community engagement, and machine knitting. He is interested in the overlap and interplay between analogue and digital media, and the possibilities of combining the two in production and performance. Tricotone 1 is a knitted animation created using standard punch card patterns.

The Reel to Real screeningprogramme is complemented by a special installation of artist and photographer David Penny’s Screen for Another Focus. This immersive moving image installation was produced during an artist residency at Dovecot Tapestry Studio, Edinburgh. The piece interprets the extraordinary craftsmanship of the Dovecot weavers. It artfully captures the objects and materials that build the weavers’ world and the familiarity of actions and muscle memory in the body that all come into play in the process of weaving.

The Crafts Council has enabled the display of this exciting work in the raw, industrial setting of Bargehouse, on display as part of the Future of Craft. The event is curated and presented by Oxo Tower Wharf in collaboration with Design-Nation and Future Icons for London Craft Week 2019 and includes a curated line-up of innovative craft organisations, practitionersand collectives.

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DATESThurs 9 May – Sun 12 MayVENUEFuture of Craft Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, South Bank, LondonOPENING TIMES 11am–7pmADMISSIONFree

Cara de Diablo (Devil Face) 2018 5’52”Director, script: Mariano Renteria Garnica Featuring: Felipe Horta Producer: Jorge Díez Maza Cinematography: Mariano Rentería Garnica Sound: Mariano Rentería Garnica Editor: Jorge Díez Maza Camera assistant: Jonathan Barojas Music: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Since the Spanish conquest of Mexico, the eternal battle between good and evil has been portrayed in Mexican dancing traditions. Felipe Horta has been working for more than 30 years, like many other artisans, on creating masks and costumes that give identity to these traditions in the state of Michoacán.

SATELLITE EVENTScreen for Another Focus

Lives of Clay 2018 2’06”Director (film): Zoe Manders Concept: Vidya Thirunarayan Director (theatre): Tim Supple Choreographer: Debbie Fionn Barr Dramaturgy: Katie Ebner-Landy Performers: Vidya Thirunarayan, Lee Hart and Barry Ganberg Music: K.S. Bhavani Shankar Artistic director: The Clay Connection Studio production support: Art Asia, Farnham Maltings, Arts Council England

Clay is universal and can be transformed into something that carries meaning or purpose by simple means. Bharatanatyam (Indian classical dance) is nuanced, detailed, dynamic and highly expressive. Together, the two mediums offer a rich palette with which to perform and tell stories.

Tricotone 1 Part 2 2019 1’”Director: Sam Meech

Neil Turner Artisan 2018 2’50”Director: Rae Fallon Music: Joel Ritchie

Neil Turner was a West Australian farmer all his life, but from the age of 18, he pursued woodturning as a creative outlet, working in his shed at the end of every day. Upon retiring, he has been able to dedicate his time entirely to creating highly complex turned pieces from native Australian wood.

Carbon Copy 2017 2’04”Director: Marc Cowan Project assistant: Staffan Gnosspelius Additional film work: Lewis Davies Support: Ian Baldwin, Krystle Shard, Tom Drury, Ella Williams Music: Penguin Cafe Orchestra Funder: Lambeth Council and Loughborough Junction Action Group, as part of a Sustrans route and regeneration project

The film documents the making of ten individual bollards that act as sculptural signposts to South London’s secluded Ruskin Park. Cast directly from three different species of tree salvaged from the park, they each have a breed and grid-reference, allowing passers-by to identify where the original tree is growing.

Tricotone 1 Part 3 2019 1’”Director: Sam Meech

Tjanpi sets and props: Nyangawarra Ward, Chriselda Farmer, Erica Shorty, Cynthia Burke, Dianne Golding, Annieka Skinner, Loretta Carroll, Winifred ReidEditor and producer: Jonathan DawTjanpi field officer: Annieka SkinnerSound: Jeremy Conlon (Left of Elephant Sound)Executive producer: Michelle Young

Ngaanyatjarra woman Cynthia Burke shares a tale of the special role that dogs play in remote community life with this stop-motion animation by Jonathan Daw. The Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara(NPY) Women’s Council enables women in the remote Central and Western desert regions of Australia to earn an income from fibre art.

Sawmaking6’15”2018Director: Jacob Hesmondhalgh-Scott / Honeybee PicturesFeaturing: Shane Skelton

An observational portrait of master saw maker Shane Skelton. Inspired by his grandfather’s favourite saying ‘buy cheap, buy twice’, Skelton creates saws of the utmost quality. He himself uses the finest quality tools, including some inherited from his grandfather.

Asahiyaki20174’27”Director, cinematography, editor: Robert WiezorekSound: Daniel MiggeConsultant: Jun Schaeffer

A portrait of one of the oldest potteries making traditional tea ceremony bowls in Japan. Today, the master represents the 16th generation of his family, reflecting on his passion, tradition and artisanship.

Clay 205620161’24”Director: Niels HoebersConcept and animation: Niels Hoebers and Maarten Baas Music: Kevin Macleod

In his humorous and rebellious work, Maarten Baas, one of the Netherlands’ best-known designers, blends design with art forms including film and theatre. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of his CLAY furniture collection, he collaborated with animator Niels Hoebers to create a speculative stop-motion piece celebrating 50 years of the CLAY collection.

Brawn & Bread 20188’22”Director: Studio MICAT Thanks to: staff and campers at Beam Camp

Brawn & Bread is an outdoor gym that makes bread, using human power to process the grain, knead dough and fuel a wood-fired oven. The project was designed by UK designers Studio MICAT and was built by campers, aged 11–17, at Beam Camp, New Hampshire. The structure is designed to make a performance of the processes that go into producing this daily essential.

Ngayuku Papa: Tiny 20172’48”Director: Jonathan Daw and Cynthia Burke Story: Cynthia Burke Character design and construction: Cynthia Burke, Dianne Golding, Annieka SkinnerTranslation: Martha Ward, Cynthia Burke

What’s Your Craft: Craftivist Carrie Reichardt 2018 3’29”Director: William Scothern Producer: Sara Khan Assistant producer: Karen d’Arcangelo Commissioner: Crafts Council

A look behind the scenes at the practice of craftivist Carrie Reichardt who uses mosaic to create intricate, politicised works of art. Reichardt passionately believes in the power of craft to open up dialogue about sensitive issues. She has used her skills as a vehicle for her own political activism, most notably, her campaigning for prisonerson Death Row.

Knitting the Blues 2018 3’06”Director: Lorna Hamilton-Brown Camera: Lorna Hamilton-Brown, Chris Hamilton-Brown, Indiana Hamilton-Brown, Phoebe Corker-Marin, Ian Gabb Photography: Lorna Hamilton-Brown, Chris Hamilton-Brown Illustration, edit and song lyrics: Lorna Hamilton-Brown Music: Finger Burner, OurMusicBox.com Cameo appearances: Kaffe Fassett, Brandon Mably, Jeanette Sloan, Laduma Ngxokolo and João Caldas Nail Art: Sky’s House of Nails

Lorna Hamilton-Brown describes herself as a knitting evangelist and strives to make work that is accessible to people outside of the gallery context. Her latest music video promotes the therapeutic benefits of knitting for mental wellbeing and seeks to break the stigma of talking about mental health.

Tricotone 1 Part 1 20191’Director: Sam Meech

Sam Meech’s practice combines digital image-making, community engagement, and machineknitting. He is interested in the overlap and interplay between analogue and digital media, and the possibilities of combining the two in production and performance. Tricotone 1 is a knitted animation created using standard punch card patterns.

The Reel to Real screeningprogramme is complemented by a special installation of artist and photographer David Penny’s Screen for Another Focus. This immersive moving image installation was produced during an artist residency at Dovecot Tapestry Studio, Edinburgh. The piece interprets the extraordinary craftsmanship of the Dovecot weavers. It artfully captures the objects and materials that build the weavers’ world and the familiarity of actions and muscle memory in the body that all come into play in the process of weaving.

The Crafts Council has enabled the display of this exciting work in the raw, industrial setting of Bargehouse, on display as part of the Future of Craft. The event is curated and presented by Oxo Tower Wharf in collaboration with Design-Nation and Future Icons for London Craft Week 2019 and includes a curated line-up of innovative craft organisations, practitionersand collectives.

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DATESThurs 9 May – Sun 12 MayVENUEFuture of Craft Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, South Bank, LondonOPENING TIMES 11am–7pmADMISSIONFree

Cara de Diablo (Devil Face)20185’52”Director, script: Mariano Renteria GarnicaFeaturing: Felipe HortaProducer: Jorge Díez Maza Cinematography: MarianoRentería GarnicaSound: Mariano Rentería GarnicaEditor: Jorge Díez Maza Camera assistant: Jonathan BarojasMusic: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Since the Spanish conquest of Mexico, the eternal battle between good and evil has been portrayed in Mexican dancing traditions. Felipe Horta has been working for more than 30 years, like many other artisans, on creating masks and costumes that give identity to these traditions in the state of Michoacán.

Real to Reel: The Craft Film Festival is produced by the Crafts Council UK and Crafts magazine. Presented by Craft Victoria’s Craft Cubed Festival, supported by the City of Mel-bourne Triennial Arts Grants Program. Tour to Australia courtesy of Maker&Smith.