2023 | United Kingdom | Short

The Wool Aliens

  • Scots, English - 28 mins
  • Director | Julia Parks
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | Jane Somers, Rachael Disbury, Michael Pattison

STATUS: Released

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In her masterful 16mm ethnographic essay, the director investigates the story of an early twentieth century botanist Ida Hayward, who discovered peculiar connections between sheep’s wool, migratory plant seeds and the River Tweed in Scotland. An extremely well made film about a surprising confluence of themes – the global wool industry, colonialism, the fraught interconnectedness of fauna and the region in which it is set.

Plants Wool Industry Mills Tweed Teviot Scotland
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