Yarn

Name: Yarn
Genre: Animation, Documentary
Released: June 24, 2016
Duration: 79 min
Rating: 61

2016

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BOND360 | Release Date: June 24, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: Meet the artists who are redefining the tradition of knit and crochet, bringing yarn out of the house and into the world. Reinventing our relationship with this colorful tradition, YARN weaves together wool graffiti artists, circus performers, and structural designers into a visually-striking look at the women who are making a creativeMeet the artists who are redefining the tradition of knit and crochet, bringing yarn out of the house and into the world. Reinventing our relationship with this colorful tradition, YARN weaves together wool graffiti artists, circus performers, and structural designers into a visually-striking look at the women who are making a creative stance while building one of modern art's hottest trends.… Expand

Director: Heather Millard and Una Lorenzen and Þórdur Bragi Jónsson

Genre(s): Animation, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 79 min

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Amy Brady

Jun 23, 2016

The film offers fascinating insight into what yarn can do in the talented hands of those determined to elevate mere craft to high art. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Jul 14, 2016

It’s an inspiring portrait of a truly feminist mode of art. Read full review

John DeFore

Jun 23, 2016

Setting out to show the range of expression found in a field of craft it feels is too often dismissed as a trivial women's pastime, Una Lorenzen's Yarn showcases four artists doing things with crochet your spinster great-aunt probably never imagined. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

Jun 23, 2016

It isn’t perfect — it’s a little too airy and artsy in spots — but still, thread and string should be jealous. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Jun 23, 2016

It’s less than the sum of its attractive parts, with scant overall insight or weight. Like an old handmade sweater, this is a movie that might unravel too easily if you gave any single element a hard tug. Read full review

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