PRESTEIGNE: The Assembly Rooms

Friday 8th March, 2024

7:30pm

Event information

ONLINE TICKETS HAVE NOW SOLD OUT. If we get any returns we will put them up for sale. Thanks for all the interest.
There will be 30 tickets available at the door on the night.

THE NETTLE DRESS
An acclaimed documentary, seven years in the making, built on love for a deceased wife. Textile artist Allan Brown harvests nettles, strips them of unwanted fibre (and their sting!) before spinning and weaving them into cloth. It’s a long and almost devotional process, willingly embraced in memory of Brown’s wife Alex who died of cancer. His familiarity with the processes is lovingly conveyed during touching on-camera sequences. “Cloth made this way must be magical,” says Brown. “It was like I was being transformed by the process rather than the other way around.”

JILL, UNCREDITED
Jill Goldston has graced more films than virtually any other actor in the history of movie-making – more than 2,000. And she’s worked with a huge range of directors, including Ken Russell, John Schlesinger, Alfred Hitchcock, Lindsay Anderson and David Lynch. The secret of her success? Disappearing into the crowd and making up the numbers as an unnamed and uncredited extra. Look hard and you’ll find her in franchises such as the Bond films and the Carry Ons. Ballroom scenes, street, battlefield and café scenes were all professionally and anonymously populated by stalwarts such as Jill, and that’s what Jill, Uncredited focuses on and celebrates in this 18-minute short.

Pre-booked tickets will be guaranteed a seat but please come early so that we can monitor seating availability. If tickets sell out online there will be a limited number available on the door offered on a first come, first served basis. Please do not attend if you think you may have contracted Covid or very recently been in contact with someone who has it. Thanks from the Presteigne Screen Team.