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The Film
Netty Carlisle & Iron Hands is a 12 minute film about a girl who finds a map growing in her hair: a magical tale concerning the pursuit of fabulous treasure, and weaving.
Plot Summary
When bold Netty
Carlisle sees, in her own head-grown hair, the symbol for a church with
a spire she gets to thinking, “This is the start of a map, I’ll
be bound.” Now Netty knows that maps, with no regard to their
beginnings, inevitably lead those rightly inclined towards fabulous
treasure.
Netty furthermore fancies that fabulous treaure would suit her very
nicely, but the
girl don't have time to wait for her map to be revealed
through natural means! Instead she embarks upon a whistlestop tour of
the village of Little Happens.
Netty steals 'Medical Marvel' scalp liniment from the bowling green,
buys a phial of hair grass tincture from the apothecary, barters with a
gypsy for hare pie and heads to the Pot Belly Inn for a hair of the dog.
She wakes next morning with a hangover and a dandylion's mane of
hair, and she can't make head nor tail of her tangled map. She
runs in a panic to Iron Hands, the reclusive weaver at the Road's End
Cotton Mill. Hands agrees to weave her knotted hair into a map, but it
will take several days. Who knows if Netty has the patience to wait
that long for fabulous treasure?
Statistics
Duration: 12 minutes
Budget: £5000
Shooting Format: HDV 720p




