Real-to-reel: bringing contemporary craft to the big screen

Craft is a global movement – it’s a human movement – and a new Festival of short film leverages our screen-based lives to encourage interest in the handmade.
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Still from Alan Kitching: A Life in Letterpress, Alice Masters, 2016; supplied courtesy the artist

The promotion of craft and design has become very much a 21st century consideration – pushed out across social media channels, included in festivals, design fairs and in gallery and museum exhibition programs.

It is a mega-global industry, and at its heart lie people with incredible passion. It is not surprising, then, that a festival of short films that celebrates craft and making in all its facets has emerged.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina