By genre this film forms a transition between a portrait-like documentary and an educational film.
It showcases the phases of felt production, from sheep trimming through wool processing to the various felt techniques. In what it is revolutionary and a novelty is that it elevates felt into the heights of today’s modern artistic branches. Its goal is to provide knowledge of felt making – as one of the most ancient textile making techniques – and to make it more popular.
Judit Pócs, felt artist, was born in 1976 in Kecskemét. She has worked in planking since 1992. She studied in Denmark and Spain on scholarship in 1998 and 2001. Apart from working as a stage and costume designer for several puppet and live theatre plays, she ran planking courses in Finland, the Netherlands and Denmark. She received a visual training degree at the College of Kecskemét in 2003. She became a member of the National Association of Hungarian Artists (MAOE) in 2004. She was the auditing teacher of the international planking symposium in Nals (Italy) from 2005. She has regularly exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Hungary and abroad, (including Helsinki, Tallin, Prague). She was awarded several prestigious prizes, including the craft’s special prize at the 14th Chapeau festival in France in 2006.
István Rittgasser was born in 1973. He graduated at Highschool of Art and Design on the Photo Department. Later on he worked as a variety electrician, a soldier (serving as a projectionist), a cartoon animator. Than he became a student of Eszterházy Károly College - Department of Art and Visual Communication. Afterwards he spent my time as a technician in a drama group, an attendant in a multimedia studio, a teacher in an art camp, a part-time school teacher, a journalist, a graphic designer, meanwhile a broadcaster in a radio program, a director of photography (sometimes a film director), a member of performance groups and once in a while a painter (beginner). His films have been screened in various festivals.
Category: MEDIAWAVE Festival / Gathering / MEDIAWAVE 2008
Genre: Documentary
Nationalities: Hungary
Year: 2008
Premiere: Eurpean premier
Director: PÓCS Judit, RITTGASSER István
35 min. 2007 BetacamSP, Colour, szöveges, Hungarian, English felírattal
Screenplay: Pócs Judit, Rittgasser István
Operatőr: Rittgasser István
Animátor: Kósa Andreas
Zeneszerző: Krulik Zoltán
Vágó: Rittgasser István
Narrátor: Pócs Judit, Tímár Zoltán, Cristopher Carlile-Kovács
2013.08.14. 23:12 | |
Is it possible to buy a copy of the dvd On Gentle Threads - about felt making please? If so, what would it cost? Thank you. | |
2013.08.14. 23:02 | |
Is it possible to buy a copy of the dvd On Gentle Threads - about felt making please? If so, what would it cost? Thank you. | |
2013.08.14. 22:52 | |
Is it possible to buy a copy of the dvd On Gentle Threads - about felt making please? If so, what would it cost? Thank you. | |
2011.02.25. 20:32 | |
On Gentle Threads - about feltmaking |