THE MOON AND THE SLEDGEHAMMER

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She has long been a fan of The Moon and the Sledgehammer and chose it as her Desert Island Doc at the Sheffield Doc Fest. You can watch the interview below where she shows a deep understanding of the film and discusses its merits so poetically.

Picturehouses Central is the flagship cinema of the Picturehouses group, located in the heart of London in Piccadilly Circus. It is the former Trocadero Centre and has now been transformed into a luxury 7 Screen cinema, all boasting huge screens and probably the most comfortable and spacious seats in the country. 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. Seminal aphorisms and insightful anecdotes, a glue for this their apparent nonsensical way of living. A portrait of a fantastical family atBirthday screening at Picturehouse Central with Philip Trevelyan, Maxine Peake and John Russell Taylor, hosted by Gareth Evans Cut off from society and its influences, their bizarre personal fantasies and philosophies reveal a true independence of existence. Their seemingly eccentric lifestyle shows a family at one with nature, but at odds with society and each other. Yet for all their eccentricities they ably demonstrate that they are remarkably successful at looking after themselves in a way few of us are today and indeed make us question the accepted sanity and values of today’s ever more homogenised society We have inherited an incredible natural world. But now our planet is on the brink of extinction, and we must make radical and immediate changes to the way we live before it is too late. Research revealed that only one ninety-year-old man retained this secret knowledge of glassmaking – knowledge in jeopardy of disappearing. Big Ware,for the BBC’s prestigious artsprogramme Omnibus in 1971 who screened the film twice. It shows George Curtis at work;the last traditional country potter still working. This is a subject well understood by Trevelyan whose mother was the well-known craft potter Ursula Mommens.

This conversation will be hosted by Julia Brow, founder and programmer of No Planet B - an arts organisation which inspires environmental activism through film & culture. Pucelancyrcan | Folk Police Recordings". folkpolicerecordings.bandcamp.com. Archived from the original on 13 May 2013.Philip Trevelyan is the director of The Moon and the Sledgehammer. Trevelyan’s film career spans 1964 to 1975 and includes Lambing, The Ship Hotel – Tyne Main, Big Ware, and Basil Bunting. A master of pace and poetic expression, his constant theme features people who have found true contentment in life. Critic John Russell Taylor of The Times recently called him ‘one of the few real poets of cinema’. Trevelyan took up organic farming in 1974, and now runs an organic miller co-operative, as well as designing award-winning ergonomic hand tools, specialising in chemical free weed control by the traditional but labour intensive practice of removing and permanently eradicating individual plants https://lazydogtools.co.uk Link to Guardian article: https://tinyurl.com/xx4c8mre Shooting must be done on location, and props and sets must not be brought in (if a particular prop is necessary for the story, a location must be chosen where this prop is to be found); the sound must never be produced apart from the images or vice versa (music must not be used unless it occurs where the scene is being shot); the camera must be handheld; the film must be in colour, and special lighting is not acceptable; optical work and filters are forbidden; the film ust not contain superficial action (murders, etc, must not occur); temporal and geographical alienation is forbidden (that is to say that the film, takes place in the here and now); genre movies are not acceptable.

Their plan for a sustainable future includes: reduced individual energy consumption and a switch to renewable energy; mass rewilding of the Earth’s land and seas to absorb carbon emissions, support the planet’s biodiversity and halt the current catastrophic levels of species extinction; a widespread uptake in vegan diets, to reduce carbon emissions and use the Earth’s available land more efficiently; and a global socialist planning system, to manage the planet’s resources and the world’s activities. Alastair McIntosh is a writer whose many books include Soil and Soul, Riders on the Storm and Spiritual Activism and a leading light in Scotland and beyond as defender of the natural world. He is involved with Scottish land reform, especially on Eigg and campaigned successfully against the Harris super quarry. He is a fellow of the Centre for Human Ecology, and helped to set up the Govan based GalGael Trust of which he is a non-executive director. In 2006 he was appointed to the honorary position of Visiting Professor of Human Ecology at the University of Strathclyde, (Department of Geography & Sociology) – the first such post in Human ecology in a Scottish university – and is now an honorary professor at the University of Glasgow. De Natura and The Moon and the Sledgehammer will be available with descriptive subtitles. The live conversation on Tuesday 13 September will be live-captioned. Philip Trevelyan, The Moon and the Sledgehammer, 1971 An obscure gem from the golden age of cinema verité, Philip Trevelyan’s 1971 documentary The Moon and the Sledgehammer goes down a rabbit hole and comes up face-to-face with one of the most bizarre and captivating families ever filmed. Alongside these two wonderful films we will be joined on Tuesday 13 September by Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese, authors of the recently-published Half-Earth Socialism, to discuss the book and their plan for a future free from extinction, climate change and pandemics.On the third evening, The Moon & the Sledgehammer will screen Gorge Coeur Ventre (Still Life, 2016), by Maud Alpi, fresh from the Locarno film festival. More here One of the best-loved films to feature steam traction engines is now available for home viewing following the brand new release of the film The Moon and the Sledgehammer on DVD.