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Piyaz-e Farsi (Persian Onion)

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Piyaz-e Farsi (Persian Onion) is a short documentary film by John Wells and Hadi Roudi. Inside of an Iranian grocery store in a small German city, local residents share their views about the local Iranian community.

Year of filming and completion: 2017

Total time: 6 min 41 sec

Color, HD

Matcha

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This is a very short clip edited from the footage I shot for a news program about Japanese “matcha” green tea. I was the camera operator and editor of this clip. It compares the traditional and modern industrial methods of creating powdered green tea. It was filmed with a Canon XL-1.

Bozalan

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This is the trailer for the 38 minute documentary “Bozalan” by Ulara Tamura and John Wells.

This documentary shows the process of naturally dyed carpet weaving in the village of Bozalan in the Milas region of southwest Turkey. In a time when the vast majority of hand made Turkish carpets are made with synthetically dyed colors, Bozalan is a rare case in that the women of this village continue to use natural dyes.

The film paints a portrait of a village where carpet weaving is central to life. Plants that grow wild nearby are collected for the dye. Women gather together with their neighbors to weave carpets for sale or for their dowries.

Villagers talk about the history of carpet weaving in their village and explain some of the motifs and methods of making colors.

Produced and directed by Ulara Tamura and John Wells. Camera and editing by John Wells. Research, editing and translation by Ulara Tamura.

Documentary, 38 minutes. Filmed in 2006 and edited in 2008.

「ボザラン」日本語版予告編

トルコ絨毯は、近代化により、市場からさまざまな変化を受けてきている。伝統的産地の­ひとつ、南西部ミラス地方でも、今では村々で織られる絨毯のほとんどに、人工染料であ­らかじめ染められた糸が用いられている。
そのようななか、ボザラン村では、人びとは天然染料による染色を行なったうえで、絨毯­を織る。隣人が糸を洗うと言えば手伝いに集まり、織るとなれば織り仲間の家を行き来し­て共に機の前に座る。染めながら牛の世話をし、織りながら子どもをあやす。娘たちは嫁­入り道具の絨毯を織り貯める。
本作品は、絨毯の製作過程を辿りながら、絨毯がくらしに埋めこまれ、村の社会生活が絨­毯を軸に回る様子を描く。

ドキュメンタリー（38分）　2006年撮影／2008年制作

制作／監修：田村うらら、ジョン・ウェルズ　　撮影／編集：ジョン・ウェルズ　　リサーチ／編集／翻訳：田村うらら