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Mati Manas: A Journey into Indian Pottery

1:30:00Terracotta
26 3on YouTube

Mani Kaul’s 1984 film on the potters of India — the myths they work inside, the clay itself, and the wheel as something older than any of the people turning it.

An archival documentary held in the Vault for the craft it records, not a film about this maker.

The maker

Shyam Lal PrajapatShyam Lal Prajapat
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