Senses of Making

Senses of Making is a library of short films exploring artisanal production. Visual narratives exhibiting the intimacy of making candidly report the theater of activity intertwining material, the maker’s hand, and the tool. The studio will continue developing short documentary treatments of the experience of craftsmanship, artisan production, and the material reality of small workshops in Japan.

 

  • Works are interested in the motivation for production; the technician’s relationship with machines, process, and the outcomes of production; the physical attitude of bodies in contexts of production; the ways knowledge is embodied and presented in the factory setting; evidence of technician agency; and in presenting the mesmerizing beauty, humor, and humanizing features of mechanized production complicit in the power and seduction of modern production.

    2019-2020