Handmade Nation Thursday, August 13, 2009
Run out of junk to sell on eBay? Maybe it's time to start making your own. Faythe Levine's 2006 film Handmade Nation documents hipsters who do just that. Among the craftastic profiled: papercut artist Nikki McClure, X-rated latch hooker Whitney Lee, feminist art collective the Dirt Palace, and yarn graffitists Knitta. Rumor has it you can even turn your creative compulsions into cold hard cash via marketplace sites like Etsy.com. So what are you waiting for? That macramé isn't going to knot itself! (Q&A with director Levine, plus a book signing and mini craft fair, follows the Saturday noon screening.) Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theater, 611 N. Fairfax Ave., L.A.; Sat., Aug. 15, noon ($25) & 7 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 16, 3, 5, 7 & 9 p.m.; $12. (323) 655-2510. (Originally published in L.A. Weekly, August 14, 2009.)
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