Movie

Poppets (2022)

• February 10, 2022
• 16m

“A surreal soap opera through four generations of capitalistic town planning.”

Overview

‘Poppets’ is a surreal soap opera set in Basildon and the Estuary, following an Essex girl investigating malpractice in a local housing development, and two women who meet and fall in love on a night out at Bas Vegas. They are psychically linked to the story of two Plotlands women (as overshared to them by an old man in the smoking area) who visit their local witch to make a ‘poppet’. A journey through 4 generations of capitalistic town planning, from the smallholdings of the 1800s to the luxury flats built on floodplains of the future.

Director

Maz Murray

Writers

Maz Murray

Starring

Hannah Henderson, Hava Carvajal, Saskia Elzeta