As seen on screen: Yarn – the Movie review

Tonight, for one night only, Yarn – the Movie is being screened in cinemas nationwide.  Some showings, at Showcase cinemas,  are 'knit-alongs' which sounds like fun. I've just had my own private screening and to be honest, although the film really made me want to start knitting, and to create all kinds of projects out in the world, I'd have difficulty doing it in the dark, and I'd want to concentrate on watching the film.

Yarn – the Movie is an award-winning Icelandic documentary that also takes us to Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Poland, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Hawaii, Cuba, USA and Canada on a journey that explores the endless possibilities of yarn, with artists who work with yarn through knitting, crochet and other modes of creative expression.

It's cosy and comfortable on one level, covering how women pass on their skills to each other, wand how women all over the world are connected by them, and how yarn can be connected in oh so many beautiful, thought-provoking and meaningful forms.

The film features the work of Polish crochet artist Olek, known for camouflage-pattern crochet, Japanese artist Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam of Net Play Works who creates giant three-dimensional knitted, knotted playgrounds, Tilde Björfors, the founder of the contemporary Swedish circus company Cirkus Cikör and Tinna Þórudóttir Þorvaldar, yarn graffiti artist from Iceland. (Reykjavik was the first place I ever saw graffiti knitting – I wonder if it was by Tinna.)

Watch the Yarn – the Movie trailer and find your nearest screening. Obviously, this film deserves a wider audience; I hope to see it on TV soon.