Sussex on Screen: The Nettle Dress
Cinema
Dylan Howitt, 2022 1h 7m (12a)
This spellbinding documentary is screening as part of Sussex on Screen, a season showcasing films which feature Sussex landscapes and locations.
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Don't miss this extra special event! The screening on Friday 5 September will be followed by a live set of Sussex songs by folk singer Liz Overs.
In this spellbinding, award-winning documentary, British textile artist Allan Brown spends seven years making a dress by hand from the fibre of locally foraged stinging nettles.
This is ‘hedgerow couture’ – the greenest of slow fashion and also Allan’s medicine, as it’s how he survives the death of his wife and finds a beautiful way to honour her.
A modern-day fairytale and a hymn to the healing power of nature and slow craft, The Nettle Dress is an exquisite and inspiring meditation on grief and creativity.