Pottery Poets

Part of Universal's "Person-Oddity" series in the 1940s. The secret of European-made ceramics brought to America by Walt Goldscheider (and still a secret).

Pottery

The film begins as a cultural reportage of the most conventional kind, with a series of frames filmed around Peleș Castle, set to classical music and accompanied by a commentary describing the museum's ceramic collection

Pottery Workshop

Oleg Khrapan is a master of folk art of Ukraine and a modern potter. His work often evokes emotions of delight, happiness and nostalgia, because pottery is one of the oldest crafts in Ukraine. Every spectator will be abl

The Pottery Maker

A little girl watches the craftsman at work while inter-titles explain the particulars of pottery-making.

Making Mixtec Pottery

Over the course of 38 minutes, Allen Downs’s Making Mixtec Pottery intimately captures the process of creating clay pottery in Oaxaca, Mexico. Along with the Zapotecs, the Mixtecs are considered the most culturally and a

San Marcos Pottery

A mother and daughter show how pottery is made according to age-old customs in the village of San Marcos Tlapazola.

The Pottery Makers

Raymundo Gleyzer's documentary on o community of Pottery Makers in the west of Cordoba province in Argentina who create pieces to sell to the tourists.

Makonde Pottery

Ethnographic film

The Pottery at Ilza

Andrzej Wajda's first movie looks at the pottery in the town of Iłża, Poland. Much of it shows the actual process of creating all the objects out of clay.

Faith, Hope & Pottery

The camera and the center of attention turn 180 degrees when actress Laura Drasbæk suddenly confronts the film’s director with her own denial and shattered acting dreams.

Hopi Pottery: A Handmade Heritage

Explore the rich tradition of American Indian art with this examination of Hopi pottery and the culture that creates it. Cameras take viewers to a reservation at First Mesa, Ariz., where a Hopi potter demonstrates time-h

Haruka's Pottery

Koyama Haruka was an office worker who lived an unremarkable life, but one day she comes across a large platter of Bizen ware on display at a department store. Little by little, even at work and on her days off, Haruka i

Pottery by Makupulane Chopi Women

Ethnographic film

Maria Martinez: Indian Pottery of San Ildefonso

Maria Montoya Martinez and her son, Popovi Da demonstrate how Pueblo Indian Pottery is made using traditional methods. Filmed in San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico. Maria Martinez, noted indian pottery maker demonstrates

Documentary on Traditional Pottery Craft in Homs, Syria

In the quiet corners of old Homs, where worn hands still shape beauty out of clay, this heartfelt documentary unfolds as a love letter to a craft that breathes warmth, memory, and resilience. Here, pottery is more than j

Rehearsal for a Reunion (with the Father of Pottery)

In Rehearsal for a Reunion (with the Father of Pottery) (2011), Fujiwara uses a difficult relationship with a distant father as the starting point for a humorous, circuitous video that reenacts a real-life experience thr

History of Pottery and Ceramics in Algeria

In Algeria, pottery is different from one region to another, the result of the various influences it has undergone throughout history. If the manufacturing steps are substantially the same, the result is far from identic

a pottery produced by 5 potters at once (silent attempt)

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