Real-to-reel: bringing contemporary craft to the big screen
Craft is a global movement – it’s a human movement – and a new Festival of short film leverages our screen-based lives to encourage interest in the handmade.
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Visual Arts
Still from Alan Kitching: A Life in Letterpress, Alice Masters, 2016; supplied courtesy the artist
The promotion of craft and design has become very much a 21st century consideration – pushed out across social media channels, included in festivals, design fairs and in gallery and museum exhibition programs.
It is a mega-global industry, and at its heart lie people with incredible passion. It is not surprising, then, that a festival of short films that celebrates craft and making in all its facets has emerged.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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