The film offers fascinating insight into what yarn can do in the talented hands of those determined to elevate mere craft to high art.
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
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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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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.
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.
Los Angeles Times by Katie Walsh
It’s an inspiring portrait of a truly feminist mode of art.
The New York Times by Neil Genzlinger
It isn’t perfect — it’s a little too airy and artsy in spots — but still, thread and string should be jealous.
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