Marty Gross and the Mingei Film Archive

摘要

When a reputation developed around Canadian artist and filmmaker Marty Gross' enthusiasm for acquiring old film and audio on early 20th-century activities in East Asian village potteries (primarily in Japan, Korea, China, and Southeast Asia), the footage and recordings started to arrive by a variety of means from diverse sources. Some were gifted by the original filmmaker, some were found abandoned in attic trunks or on studio shelves, others lay neglected deep in museum cupboards or in cabinets in German church archives, or languished in a rural New England barn.