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A CENTERED UNIVERSE

31. December 2000 By CINEWOLF media productions

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A CENTERED UNIVERSE
Untertitel
The Life and Art of Harry Holl
Category
FILM TV VIDEO
Details
Die bewegte Lebensgeschichte des Künstlers und Töpfers Harry Holl. Über die Entstehung des Blackmountain College, Harrys künstlerischen Zugang zur Welt und seine Kunst in einem abgeschiedenen Wald auf Cape Cod.
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Directed and Produced by KAYLYN THORNAL
Cinematography by WOLF ZOETTL
Music by RUSHMORE DENOOYER AND MALCOLM BROOKS
Associate Producer LAURIE GELTMAN
Edited by KAYLYN THORNAL
©2002 ParachuteDream Productions

“A gripping probe into the long life of sculptor Harry Holl ” – The Boston Phoenix
“Fascinating” - Cape Cod Times

“What could have been a painfully dry portrait of an accomplished artist,
becomes in Thornal’s skilled hands, a tragic portrait. Few films match its bold
approach.” - Worcester Magazine

Life seemed good for Harry, especially after the family's move to Cape Cod, where he opened a pottery shop off Route 6A. He worked on his pottery all day, sold many pieces each summer, and became the perfect father to his four daughters. But the illusion crumbled. (see video) It took a suicide attempt and a divorce for Harry to realize he hadn't fully realized the center Himata had talked about. His wife, his children, his job -- all these, he decided, should only be spokes on the wheel, his influences and support, but not the hub. Pottery had to be the hub. So he became a potter, and only a potter. He worked for 30 years without a day off. He became the crazy old artist who lived on the hill and had a rotating cast of young girlfriends, none of whom ever meant more to him that his work, none of whom ever became a permanent fixture. (see video)
It seems fitting, then, that his own children refer to him as Harry, not Dad. He's not a dad -- he's an artist, a potter. He's a self-centered man, isolated in his own self-contained world, from which he rarely leaves. His family and friends always have to come to him; he never goes to them. And yet he seems so open, so willing to share what he's learned. He seems to exist in a state of harmonious detachment from others, able to care for them and feel their presence at a distance, without clinging or controlling. Just as he made pottery the hub of his life, he himself has become the hub of a vibrant artistic community, a gathering of potters who flock to his secluded workshop and lose themselves in their art. (see video)
Some might see the tale of Holl's life as a tragedy, one of lonely isolation, of the incapacity to connect with others. But anyone who has felt that artistic pull, who has given him- or herself over to the act of creation, no matter how trivial -- only to become irritated by the distractions of everyday life -- can understand Holl's decisions. "A Centered Universe" is truly inspirational, an absolute must-see for or anyone pursuing or considering the pursuit of art -- and for the family and friends close to them. (see video)
"A Centered Universe" was the winner of the Audience Award Best Documentary at the 11th Annual Woods Hole Film Festival, an Official Selection of the Provincetown International Film Festival, and an Opening Night Selection of the F4 Film Festival. It airs Tuesday July 15, 10PM, on WGBH/PBS Boston.

Written by Chris Cooke for NewEnglandFilm.com

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Total devotion to one's art has incredible rewards, but it also comes at a price.
The war gave Holl a sense of responsibility. After all, he got his life back and others didn't -- he couldn't waste it. He had to accomplish something. He soon found himself sculpting again, this time at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where he met his wife Mirande. After moving to the West Coast, he made his first attempts at pottery, under the tutelage of visiting Japanese potter Shoji Himata. Himata was a Zen Buddhist who thought that pottery was not just an occupation -- it was a way of life, a center from which you draw all your identity and strength.

Using interviews of Holl, his family, and his disciples, the film tells of Holl's humble beginnings in the Bronx, where he was surprised to receive a scholarship to the LaGuardia High School for Music and Arts, to his achievements in sculpture at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design, to his experiences painting Air Force buddies' jackets and defusing bombs in World War II.

Path to Pottery

Documentaries these days tend to focus on anomalies, people whose charming and often grotesque peculiarities partly serve to remind us of how comfortably normal we are. But every once in a while, along comes a film about someone who, despite his or her flaws, functions as a role model, shows us a possible approach to our own lives. Such is the case with director Kaylyn Thornal's documentary "A Centered Universe" about 80-year-old potter, sculptor, painter, and founder of the Cape Museum of Fine Arts -- Harry Holl. Holl has learned to live a life without compromise, placing art above everything else. It's not a path without personal sacrifice, but its artistic rewards are clear.

Regie
Kaylyn Thornal
Kamera
Wolfram Zöttl, aac
Produktion
PARACHUTE DREAM PRODUCTIONS
Unser Job
Kamera, Director of Photography
Editor
Kaylyn Thornal
PRODUKTIONSJAHR
1999/2000
Locations
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
Awards
2000 Best Feature Documentary, 11th WOODS HOLE FILM FESTIVAL, MA

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