Event Details
Join us for Crafted Vancouver’s third edition of REEL Crafted, featuring an eclectic collection of films by talented filmmakers from around the world, each exploring their unique view and understanding of craftsmanship and our crafted world.
Adapting to the times, the festival will be happening online this year. We are turning this to our advantage; instead of a single day event, the short film selection of REEL Crafted will be available globally throughout the Crafted Vancouver festival, May 1-25.
On top of that, we are thrilled to be hosting the Canadian premier of two outstanding feature films as a special event on May 15th, available only in Canada!
FEATURE FILM INTRODUCTION
REEL Crafted is proud to host the Canadian premier of two masterful feature films as a special event on May 15th! “Against The Grain” is a gorgeous examination of the complex relationship between craft and the environment through the groundbreaking work of Sebastian Cox, while “Carving The Divine” is an intimate look into the artistic process of modern day Busshi – the buddhist sculptors of Japan.
Feature films (streaming on Saturday, May 15th only)
Against The Grain (Duncan Parker, 2021)
Sebastian Cox has combined ancient practices with the most sustainable materials to revolutionize the craft world. He is considered a rock-star amongst the most respected names in craft. From fire-scored tables to mycelium lampshades, he could be likened to a genius mad scientist, with a head full of bonkers ideas.
Carving The Divine (Yujiro Seki, 2021)
Carving the Divine offers a rare and intimate look into the life and artistic process of modern-day Busshi – practitioners of a 1400 year lineage of Buddhist woodcarving. Determined to pass his craft down to future generations, Master Koun Seki, the former apprentice of renowned Busshi, Kourin Saito, interviews a candidate applying to be his new apprentice. Quickly though, we discover this apprenticeship and the Busshi’s life to be far less glamorous, and much more austere, than we (or the Candidate) would’ve likely imagined. Once Master Seki makes his selection, we’re taken on a trip through a guild culture unlike anything existing today in The West: From the growing pains of a novice apprentice, to the entire guild working together as one body to create breathtaking works of art, to the monkish practice of the famed, Grand Master Saito himself, alone on his quest to “leave nothing but great works behind.”
