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Unbroken Tradition
1986 | 29mins
Unbroken Tradition
1986 | 29mins
Unbroken Tradition is a portrait of Jerry Brown, a ninth generation potter from Hamilton, Alabama. It looks at the continuation of this family tradition since Jerry's…
Quilts in Women‘s Lives
1981 | 28mins
Quilts in Women‘s Lives
1981 | 28mins
Quilts was a ground breaking film used by folklorists, anthropologists and historians of art and womens history that presented the lives, art, work and philosophy of ordinary…
Cowboy Poets
1988 | 53mins
Cowboy Poets
1988 | 53mins
American cowboys have been writing poetry for more than a century. Cowboy Poets profiles three cowboy reciters--Waddie Mitchell, Slim Kite and Wally McRae--representing three…
Sea Bright Skiff
1991 | 28mins
Sea Bright Skiff
1991 | 28mins
The Sea Bright-style skiff dates back to the mid 1800s along the North Jersey Shore. Charles Hankins still hand-crafts these boats of New Jersey cedar and green oak, though they…
Gravel Springs
1972 | 10mins
Gravel Springs
1972 | 10mins
Othar Turner, a fife-maker and musician, owns his farm in the Gravel Springs community in northwest Mississippi. The rhythmical music he and his friends play is called "fife and…
Spirits in the Wood
1991 | 28mins
Spirits in the Wood
1991 | 28mins
An in-depth portrait of a man, his art, his philosophy, and his creative process, this work cuts across folk and fine art boundaries to explore the energized world and works of…
Painted Bride
1990 | 25mins
Painted Bride
1990 | 25mins
This 1990 video features the exquisite mehndi body painting tradition as it is practiced among Pakistani immigrants living in Queens, New York City. The film follows a mehndi…
Home Movie
1975 | 19mins
Home Movie
1975 | 19mins
This 1974 documentary produced in the era before video cameras chronicles the tradition of home movies in American family folklore. It explores the common themes in family films,…
Made in Mississippi
1975 | 18mins
Made in Mississippi
1975 | 18mins
A 1975 Bill Ferris film that features artists from a number of different craft traditions discussing and demonstrating their work, including quilting, sculpting, house building,…
Sonny Ford, Delta Artist
1969 | 41mins
Sonny Ford, Delta Artist
1969 | 41mins
B/w 16mm documentary film based on fieldwork Ferris conducted with Leland, Mississippi, bluesman and folk artist James "Son" Thomas. Included is footage of Thomas performing at…
Kathleen Ware, Quiltmaker
1979 | 32mins
Kathleen Ware, Quiltmaker
1979 | 32mins
From the placing of an order to the completion of the last stitch, the film details the entire process of creating a traditional Lone Star quilt. As the quilt grows, so does our…
Cameraman Has Visited Our Town
1989 | 19mins
Cameraman Has Visited Our Town
1989 | 19mins
An introduction to H. Lee Waters and his Movies of Local People 1936 to 1942. A film by Tom Whiteside.
Crawdad Slip
1999 | 45mins
Crawdad Slip
1999 | 45mins
Sid Luck is a fifth generation potter in Seagrove, North Carolina. This forty-five minute documentary explores his life and work, and the family heritage he hopes to pass on to…
Learned it in Back Days and Kept It
1981 | 28mins
Learned it in Back Days and Kept It
1981 | 28mins
Portrait of Lucreaty Clark (1903 - 1986), an African American oak basket maker from rural Florida. Clark embraced a wide repertoire of traditional African American songs, games…
Style Wars
1983 | 1h 9mins
Style Wars
1983 | 1h 9mins
New York's legendary Kings of Graffiti own a special place in the hip hop pantheon. Style Wars is regarded by many as the definitive document of the emerging hip hop culture, an…
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