About the film: Da Makkin o’ a Keshie
Scottish Screen Archive - National Library of Scotland
Da Makkin o’ a Keshie
The Making of a Keshie
Year: 1932
The man skilfully cuts, rolls and weaves the straw. The basketwork is done with painstaking care, without embellishments, just like the filming of this documentary. Old Gideon accepts the eye of the camera without a glance or a word.
Young director Jenny Brown soberly films his calloused hands at work, alternating the shots like for a teaching lesson. This close and sustained attention to ancestral practices is what made the Shetland islanders adopt “Jeeny Broon” from Glasgow as one of their own.
Director: Jenny BROWN
Nationality: Scottish
Length: 5' 3"
Genre: documentary
Sound: sound
Original elements: black & white
Composer: Antonio Coppola (2008)
Original language: English
Nationality: Scottish
Length: 5' 3"
Genre: documentary
Sound: sound
Original elements: black & white
Composer: Antonio Coppola (2008)
Original language: English
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