THE MOON AND THE SLEDGEHAMMER

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The buzz continued to the after-party, full of stimulating chat and not a mobile phone in sight. Think that says it all! The Moon & the Sledgehammer is being featured on Seed and Spark as part of the collection, FILMS THAT MAKE THE WORLD FEEL CHANGED, curated by Charlie Phillips, deputy director of the international documentary festival Sheffield Doc/Fest and long-time fan of the film. Following the screening a conversation will be held with director Philip Trevelyan, Alastair McIntosh and David Archibald, hosted by Sam Ainsley Director Philip Trevelyan said in a recent Q&A celebrating the film’s 50 th that he wanted to record them because

Dilys Powell (29 August 1971). The Sunday Times Weekly Review. {{ cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= ( help) It offers a glimpse into their self-constructed albeit unusual universe where they have formed their own philosophies about the world around them. There, in their woodland paradise and being part of the Nature they inhabit, they believe the world has followed the wrong path. https://themoonandthesledgehammer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Maxine-Peake-Sheffield-12-low-res.mp4 Join us for a live conversation with Half-Earth Socialism authors Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese about the steps that need to be taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reverse the effects of climate change, on both an individual and structural level.

A nd if you miss this screening, there will be a later one at same venue in November to coincide with COP26 which is being held in Glasgow. Trevelyan’s lyrical films offer portraits of resolutely local communities seemingly fixed in time and people who live in intimate communion with the land, finding true contentment through their work that confirms their invaluable place in life and in society. Big Ware, a portrait of an aging potter still working tirelessly, delights as both a documentary of a dying art and an ode of sorts to English soil, the clay-veined terroir transformed into moon-shaped vessels. Birthday screening at Picturehouse Central with Philip Trevelyan, Maxine Peake and John Russell Taylor, hosted by Gareth Evans It was a great birthday party for such a timeless and enduring film that continues to resonate throughout the decades. It has been a very tough time for the industry and continues to be challenging due to seating restrictions so please support your local cinemas. The unthinkable alternative is quite simply that we will lose them, and what an unwonderful world that would be.

The combination of films is an ode to independence and determination, laying out a feast of individuals doing it their way, right on the edge. Great combo Charlie!

Featuring a short film by Lucile Hadžihalilović, cult documentary The Moon and the Sledgehammer , and a discussion of a plan for a sustainable future on Earth Glasgow’s exhilarating new venue, The Revelator, a corporeal incarnation by Glasgow based visionary artist Stephen Skrynka, is Scotland’s only truly nomadic circular Art Space, Theatre, Cinema and fully functioning Wall of Death; a beacon of hope proving skill, imagination and devotion can make so much with so little. Further info on Alastair McIntosh and his works here http://www.alastairmcintosh.com/personal.htm#short-bio

Films will be screened FREE of charge (booking is essential through Eventbrite). Our aim is to allow the public to fully absorb all the potential of sustainability and hope this inspires change. In 1990 a writer for The Times of London described “THE MOON AND THE SLEDGEHAMMER” as “one of the most original British films”. We are in the world of Philip Trevelyan’s The Moon and The Sledgehammer. It is 1971 and the spell has been cast. It was maybe ten years later that I saw the film. Transfixed, it transformed the way in which I would make my own work. A template for the believable heaviness of making. Channelling the spirits of David Bowie, Suzi Quatro and Karl Marx to debate the life and legacy of Guy Debord, theoretical leader of the Paris-based Situationist International and author of ‘The Society of the Spectacle’ and ‘Theory of the Dérive’. Transposing Debord’s ideas on the dérive from street to screen, this 17-minute film explores what a drifting cinema might look and sound like as it drifts from Paris to Glasgow, from present to past, and both with and away from Debord himself.

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It was an unusual film in that it didn’t have a storyline. Producer Jimmy Vaughan and director Trevelyan had different views on this. Editor Barrie Vince had to find a way of arranging the scenes to produce a coherent film. Drew Pendergrass is a PhD student in Environmental Engineering at Harvard University. His current research uses satellite, aircraft and surface observations of the environment to correct supercomputer models of the atmosphere. His environmental writing has been published in Harper’s, the Guardian, Jacobin, and Current Affairs. A recording of the conversation will be available to view on the platform from 7:30pm BST on Tuesday 13 September until 11:59pm BST on Friday 16 September. This event is available to view worldwide. We are thrilled to have a distinguished selection of Scottish voices joining director Philip Trevelyan in conversation following the screening. Each one excels in their field and has shown that creativity, inventiveness and dedication can find solutions to many problems.