Sorkun Çömlekleri - Sorkun Earthenware Potteries.1/2

In Anatolia, the very first pottery was made by women. Later on, after the discovery of potter's wheel around 3000 BC, pottery making passed from woman to man, and it became traditional craft passing from father to son.
The village of Sorkun, in the county of Mihalıçcık of the city of Eskişehir, is known as the "Pottery Village." The reason behind this name is because pottery is made in every household, every house is a pottery workshop.
In Sorkun, pottery is made by women, men's responsibility is to bring the earth. In other words, the mother earth meets with the earth's mothers.
Potteries... Each pottery is as if it tells the story of the hand that made it. Each pottery sings the folk songs of the hand that made it. With the dance of fire and earth, the smoke has been rising above potteries for thousands of years, and it will continue to rise for thousands of years, one wishes.


Produced by Ayse Oksuz Kanal B Ankara - Turkiye
Camera: Yusuf Turker
Editing: E.Sureyya Topcu
Transportation: Selahattin Caliskan
Masters: Havva Demirtas / Hasan Yanik / Rustem Oz / Ali Demirtas / Elmas Oz
Sorkun - Mihaliccik / Eskisehir - Turkey
Release Date: August 14, 2005
With English Subtitles