MAKING IT HANDMADE!

Director Anna Brownfield / 2010 / Australia

<p><b>Think craft is for grannies? Think again.</b></p> <p>A seditious and subversive subculture is gaining momentum in Melbourne. But rather than wielding megaphones and placards, they're cross-stitching slogans on hurricane wire and constructing plush female genitalia from craft supplies.</p> <p>Following four local women who've taken a seemingly staid past-time and injected it with a youthful, modern aesthetic, filmmaker Anna Brownfield shows a side of craft more closely aligned with punk DIY culture than with Martha Stewart and ‘home sweet home' tapestries. </p> <p>“I wanted to show that craft was no longer daggy but had moved into a new era and was being reclaimed by women who had been brought up as feminists.” - filmmaker Anna Brownfield </p>


D/P/S Anna Brownfield WS Poison Apple Productions TD HDCAM/2010

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D/P/S Anna Brownfield WS Poison Apple Productions TD HDCAM/2010

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