Arts & Crafts, Traditional Films (Northeast)

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Samuel Yellin's Legacy

Samuel Yellin's Legacy

Samuel Yellin's Legacy

Samuel Yellin's Legacy tells the story of America’s top metalworking shop, showcasing its hand-forged artistry and lasting impact.

Becoming Geppetto

Becoming Geppetto

2022 | 1h 10mins

Becoming Geppetto

2022 | 1h 10mins

Becoming Geppetto gives us an intimate and serenely meditative front-row seat to the Petros's guitar making process, as well as a look into their family life and history.

Bird Taxidermy Apprenticeship

Bird Taxidermy Apprenticeship

Bird Taxidermy Apprenticeship

What do nature centers, natural history museums, and hunters have in common? They all require someone skilled in bird taxidermy. This film shows how, with the help of a two-year…

Elizabeth James Perry Wampanoag Traditional Artist

Elizabeth James Perry Wampanoag Traditional Artist

Elizabeth James Perry Wampanoag Traditional Artist

Elizabeth James-Perry's artwork is intimately tied to her Aquinnah Wampanoag tribal heritage. Her wampum belts are made using indigenous materials -- locally harvested, handspun…

Jesse Marsolais, Letter Carver Letterpress Printer

Jesse Marsolais, Letter Carver Letterpress Printer

Jesse Marsolais, Letter Carver Letterpress Printer

Short film about Jesse Marsolais who works in old ways – traditional methods of letterpress printing and letter carving in stone and wood – to meet customers’ needs one letter at…

Harold A. Burnham, Shipwright

Harold A. Burnham, Shipwright

Harold A. Burnham, Shipwright

Short film featuring master wooden boat builder Harold A. Burnham. Shot both in the Burnham ship yard and on the water, the film touches on shipbuilding in Essex, the Burnham…

Albert Collins

Portrait of Albert "Hap" Collins of South Blue Hill, Maine. Hap Collins was a poet, painter, fiddler, lobster fisherman, storyteller, and craftsman.

Final Marks

A documentary about lettercutting, in both monumental inscriptions and on gravestones. The filmmakers were given complete access over a two year period to the work of the…

Our Lives in Our Hands

Our Lives in Our Hands

Our Lives in Our Hands

This 1986 film examines the traditional Native American craft of split ash basketmaking as a means of economic and cultural survival for Aroostook Micmac Indians of northern…

Ben‘s Mill

Ben Thresher's mill is one of the few water-powered, wood-working mills left in this country. Operating in rural Vermont since 1848, the mill is a unique link between the age of…

Grandma Moses

Anna Mary Robertson Moses better known as "Grandma Moses" did all of her painting from remembrance of things past. She liked to sit quietly and think, she once said, and remember…

Style Wars

1983 | 1h 9mins

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…

Basketmaker

1973 16-mm film of Elizabeth Proper, the last of the white oak basketmakers in a community near Taconic Hills in eastern New York State.

Baking Bread

This 28 minute piece documents the construction of a communal bread-oven in Cambridge, NY. As part of the events celebrating the 400th anniversary of the foundation of Quebec City…

Paj Ntaub

Hmong textile art, Paj ntaub or "flower cloth" consists of textile arts traditionally practiced by Hmong people. The Hmong, a nomadic group originating in China, migrated through…

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