CRAFT WARS [TRAILER]
In 2021 I delivered a lecture entitled The Good Guys Wear Knitting. The lecture discussed the ways in which crafts (and hand-made works) are deployed as a material language - a visual shorthand - indicating purity, wholesomeness, and authentic humanity within a selection of Science Fiction narratives.
This was the trailer I made in advance of the lecture.
The Good Guys Wear Knitting
Featuring:
Brazil, 1985 [Film]
Cloud Atlas, 2012 [Film]
Pay for the Printer, 1956 [Short Story]
Solaris, 1972 [Film]
Super Mario Bros., 1985 [Game Series]
The Mandalorian, 2019 [TV]
The Matrix, 1999 [Film]
The Variable Man, 1953 [Novella]