Sheep, Actually (Film Screening)

It started with the first photo Paul Wyatt ever took: a blurred sheep’s nose on a school trip when he was only nine. A lifelong love of animals and a deep-seated curiosity to understand them drove Wyatt to make Sheep, Actually. He opens the film by asking the audience, “If you’re going to work with wool, get to know how a sheep lives. Take a walk and meet the sheep.”

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​In the film, Wyatt does just that, taking viewers back to the beating heart of wool: the sheep. He meets these gentle, complex animals and spends time with advocates of slow textiles, discovering their close relationship with the flock and how they ensure the wool they use is traceable and free from intensive farming.

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Set unexpectedly in London, we meet a sheep named Cow, named for her resemblance to a calf at birth. This distinctive viewpoint offers an…