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Session VII: Shetland’s Common Thread
October 16, 2022 , 14:30 – 16:00
Moderated by Paula Hsu
Deeply embedded into everyday lives, connected to different personal meanings, and changing over generations: the production of a material that forms relationships between people, animals and their common environment.
Shetland’s Common Thread (45 min)
Germany / United Kingdom, 2020, English / English sub.
Directed by Helena Held, Leyla Rauch and Anja Heinrich
Shetland’s Common Thread is about the craft of wool processing on the Shetland Islands and the daily activities of the protagonists associated with it. The connection between the island and its human and non-human inhabitants becomes clear through the tranquil narrative style. The sustainable production method shows the deep relationship between people and the environment, and makes visible the integration of the small island in the global network.
Leyla Rauch, Helena Held and Anja Heinrich have produced this film as a term assignment for their MA in Visual Anthropology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany.
Conversation with
Kiah Rutz, PhD Candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich
