Making Mixtec Pottery
Making Mixtec Pottery
1973, English. Directed by Allen Downs.
Over the course of 38 minutes, Allen Downs’s Making Mixtec Pottery intimately captures the process of creating clay pottery in Oaxaca, Mexico. Along with the Zapotecs, the Mixtecs are considered the most culturally and artistically advanced group of people of Oaxaca, dating from 2000 BC. The film begins by following a single man from start to finish as he shapes a red clay pot. He extracts the clay from a mountainside, combines it with water and mica (a binding agent), and slowly forms the vessel with his hands. Downs documented this process intimately, using extreme close-ups to meditate on the artist’s hands as he works. As the film progresses, various establishing and mid-range shots are interspersed before transitioning to footage of other men creating their own pottery with their own techniques. Downs’s gentle, personal portrait of the work of the Mixtec potters reveals the process behind an ancient art form.
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Making Mixtec Pottery runs 38 minutes (0h 38m).
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Making Mixtec Pottery isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1973. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
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Who directed Making Mixtec Pottery?
Making Mixtec Pottery (1973) was directed by Allen Downs.