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This upbeat National Film Unit documentary (made as part of the Pictorial Parade series) is about New Zealand artist, conservationist, and rail enthusiast Barry Brickell, filmed at his first studio and home in the Coromandel. It follows the progress of his large-scale works from start to finish, accompanied by a jazzy soundtrack. With Brickell working his clay alone in the sun, amidst the five-finger and harakeke of the Coro’ bush, the making of New Zealand art has never looked more picturesque.
"I make these sculptures because they're abstract forms related somewhere to organic shapes ... they are exercises in form. Purely form. Very little else. This is what excites me, making new forms bring together images that have never ...
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Thank you so much for making this short film available.
I visited New Zealand in 1997 and by coincidence ran into Barry Brickell's Driving Creek Railway. I'll still remember him and his magic world there and admire him for his freedom.
I would like to go there once again but it's a long way from Germany.
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Short Film, 1949 (Full Length)
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Hannah McAndrew
Posted at 09.51AM - 02.06.2011
Really pleased to see this on line. Another great pottery film, Thank you.