NETTLES
Directed by RAVEN JACKSON
2018 / 24 min
Nettles are stinging plants. Shot over the course of a year, in six chapters, this short film explores stinging moments in the lives of different girls and women.
Raven Jackson received a 2020 The Future of Film Is Female grant for her upcoming short film, AND NIGHT CIRCLES.
A native of Tennessee, RAVEN JACKSON is an award-winning filmmaker, poet, and photographer. Her work often explores landscapes of indefinable experiences and emotions, as well as the body’s relationship to nature. A participant of Film at Lincoln Center’s Artist Academy during the 57th New York Film Festival, she is in development for her debut narrative feature, all dirt roads taste of salt. Her short films Nettles and A Guide to Breathing Underwater are currently streaming on the Criterion Channel. Raven is a Cave Canem fellow and holds MFAs from New York University's Graduate Film Program and the New School's Writing Program.
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