Pieces of String

Pieces of String

Ceramic artist Robert Winokur tending a wood-fired kiln, from the documentary short Pieces of String
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Ceramic artist Robert Winokur tending a wood-fired kiln, from the documentary short Pieces of String
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Documentary Short

The project

Documentary Short

Depending on who you ask, creativity is either magic in a bottle or the product of discipline and hard work. At the moment of a major exhibition by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, internationally recognized artist Robert Winokur considers the source of inspiration in his 60-year career working with clay.

It's also a film about directing a documentary about your own father.

Robert Winokur is Professor Emeritus at Temple University's Tyler School of Art, where he taught ceramics for decades. For much of his career, the house has been his central subject: an abstracted, symbolically loaded form built from Pennsylvania brick clay and fired at high temperature in a salt kiln.

Learn more at robertwinokur.com →

Credits

Director: Michael Winokur

Producer: Union Movie Works

Key Cast: Robert Winokur

Editors: Doug Ross, Iana Simeonov

Original Score: Ronald Bacardi

Sound Mix: Joel Raab, Mission Film Design

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