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Yarn(Garn)

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Netherlands, Cuba, Germany · 2016
1h 16m
Director Una Lorenzen
Starring Barbara Kingsolver, Olek, Tilde Björfors, Tinna Thórudóttir Thorvaldsdóttir
Genre Animation, Documentary

Meet the artists redefining the tradition of knitting and crochet, bringing yarn out of the house and into the world. Reinventing our relationship with this colorful tradition, Yarn is a visually-striking look at the women making a creative stance while building one of modern art's hottest trends.

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70

Village Voice by

The film offers fascinating insight into what yarn can do in the talented hands of those determined to elevate mere craft to high art.

40

Variety by Dennis Harvey

It’s less than the sum of its attractive parts, with scant overall insight or weight. Like an old handmade sweater, this is a movie that might unravel too easily if you gave any single element a hard tug.

70

The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore

Setting out to show the range of expression found in a field of craft it feels is too often dismissed as a trivial women's pastime, Una Lorenzen's Yarn showcases four artists doing things with crochet your spinster great-aunt probably never imagined.

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