The Potter from Binis

Ionica Stepan is 80 years old and comes from a family of potters. He’s part of the seventh generation of craftsmen in Binis, a Romanian village in the region of Banat. Everyone here used to make pots for a living; now he’s the last one. There was a time when you couldn’t get married unless you could make pots; nobody would have you. Ionica’s grandfather traveled the roads of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, trading pots for grain or money. For a cart full of pots he could buy a pair of oxen. After the wars and the communist regime, Ionica Stepan traveled all over the European Union, giving live demonstrations of pot-making for museums and showing people how pots are made in Binis, without modern kilns or artificial dyes.
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Script: Nicolae Lengher
Cinematography: Rafael Vasilcin, Cosmin Tiglar
Editing: Cosmin Tiglar
Sound: Mihai Pinti
Music: Stepan Project
Production: Mediana Communication
Producers: Dan Ratiu
Format: Betacam SP, Color
Production Country: Romania
Production Year: 2006
Duration: 27

Cosmin Tiglar

Filmography

1995 The Island (TV)
1996 As in heaven, So on Earth (TV)
1998 Trades and Tools
1999 Iosu
2006 The Potter from Binis (doc. series “People Trades and Tools”)