A Sense of Involvement

This award-winning National Film Unit documentary looks at the craft movement in New Zealand, as this counterpoint to industrial mass production went mainstream. The sense of involvement in the title refers to the individual skills that potters, weavers, printmakers, furniture makers and sculptors bring to making their objects. Director David Sims avoids narration, instead using music from composer Tony Baker to score scenes of the makers at work, from the loom, furnace and kiln, to workshop and studio. As a flashback to the late 70s, facial hair, ceramics and wool abound.

Key Cast & Crew

Lynton Diggle

Camera

Tony Baker

Composer

David Sims

Director, Writer

Bayly Watson

Assistant Camera

David H Fowler

Executive Producer

Kenneth Rolls

Editor