(28 minutes / 16mm transferred to digital / 2023)

A journey into the historical and tactile entanglements between sheep’s wool, migrant plant seeds and the River Tweed. Made as part of a residency with Alchemy Film and Arts.

In her masterful 16mm ethnographic essay, Julia Parks 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 – Ivan Ramljak, IFFR Rotterdam.

Screenings

DocHouse Shorts: Best Of ’25, Bertha Doc House, UK
Mostra Internacional de Cinema em Faro Festival, Portugal
Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media, Germany
Cinema Fulgo, Alentejo, Portugal
Nature Shorts, Bertha Doc House, UK
CUBE FOCUS, Cube Cinema, UK
Santa Barbara International Film Festival, USA
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
Corto e Fieno – Rural Film Festival, Italy
Seoul Animal Film Festival, South Korea
Science New Wave Festival, USA
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Germany
Stirling Shorts, Scotland, UK
Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands [International Premiere]
Brazier International Film Festival, UK
Open City Documentary Festival, UK
Edinburgh International Film Festival, UK
Alchemy Film and Arts Moving Image Festival, Hawick, UK [World Premiere]