The Plough Arts Centre (map)
Arthouse (Film)
The Nettle Dress
+ Recorded Q&A after the screening
£7.50 Full price
£6.50 Concession
£6.50 Supporter learn more
£5 Torridge Resident
This production has already happened
Dir: Dylan Howitt (2023) Stars: Allan Brown
After the death of his beloved wife, textile artist Allan Brown embarks on a seven-year endeavor to weave a hand-spun dress from stinging nettles foraged in the woods surrounding his home.
This is ‘hedgerow couture’, the greenest of slow fashion and also his medicine. It's how he survives the death of his wife and finds a beautiful way to honour her. A modern-day fairytale and hymn to the healing power of nature and slow craft.
Running time 90 minutes
- "This is an exquisite film. Extremely beautiful and helpful for anyone suffering loss or grief. An inspiration." Sir Mark Rylance
- ‘Poignant and moving, meditative and weirdly hypnotic. A really lovely film, almost like a fairy tale except that it's true. The Nettle Dress will take you out of yourself, and make you appreciate life.' Mark Kermode
- 'Craft transformed by imagination into art, like an alchemical allegory.' Patrick Harpur, author
- 'I shed tears of joy and grief and awe' Audience feedback