Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Simi Valley Bottle Village Movie

FolkStreams » Grandma's Bottle Village

"Grandma Tressa Prisbrey built her first bottle house to hold her 17,000 pencils. This was the beginning of The Bottle Village in Simi Valley, Calif. At 84, Grandma Prisbrey is a vivacious guide to her brilliant houses crammed with objects scavenged from the county dump. At her wittiest-she sings, jokes with her older sister, and combs through the dump. The film is an exploration of Grandma Prisbrey's creativity, pizzazz and sense of the absurd.The film lovingly documents the interiors of 15 of her houses, including Cleopatra's Bedroom, The Round House, as well as the marvelous sidewalk mosaics -- all masterpieces of assemblage art and tapestries of artifacts from the first half of the 20th century. ... "

How VERY cool. This is a touching film of a unique landmark in Simi...

It's 30 minutes all about Simi Valley's Bottle Village in its glory, years before the 1994 Northridge Quake trashed it.

Here's a Google search for more infomation.

(via gmtPlus9 - Grandma's Bottle Village: The Art of Tressa Prisbrey )

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