Following the successful sell-out screening of the premiere of the restored copy at the Duke of York’s cinema in Brighton, we are delighted to announce a rare opportunity to watch a Philip Trevelyan DOUBLE BILL – The Moon & the Sledgehammer + Lambing (25 mins.) Meanwhile, tensions arise between Martin and the out-of-town Leigh family, who use the harbour-front ‘Skipper’s Cottage’ they bought from Martin and Steven as a seasonal holiday home and short-term rental business. Julia Brow is a film programmer and cultural producer from London, based in Manchester. She is the founder of No Planet B, an arts organisation inspiring environmental activism through film & culture.

the timeless poem Briggflatte and K491, an experimental piece without dialogue,exploringinterpretations ofMozart’s piano concerto in C minor before a performance. Skrynka’s work invites a dialogue through joyful and playful experimentation in his use of materials, painting and performance. His work is about the constant cycle of risk and failure, repair and renewal, always exploring ways of revealing the beauty and truth of human failure and the true path of following your dreams always involves an element of risk and a human cost. Challenging conventional notions of success and exploring the ways failure can be far more revealing and life-affirming. He works with recycled material which is or becomes damaged, and also through performance by taking on ridiculous challenges. Skrynka’s work follows a methodical sequence of production but the results leave everything to chance, the whole process inviting disaster. LAMBINGwill screen with The Moon & Sledgehammer in this rare TrevelyanDouble Bill. It'sa unique opportunityto see Trevelyan's award-winning student filmon the big screen andchart his development as a film maker of unmistakable style. Even here his early film usespoetry as the main narrative. He is already experimenting with and finessing hispowerful control of time and space and ability to make his subjectso at easeas to beseemingly unaware of the camera. This throws up wonderful intimateglimpsesand an air of peaceful contentment as we are slowly drawninto the shepherd's world…Trevelyan seeks out people whose purpose in life he admires. He believes they have a great deal to teach us today and feels it is important that we listen and re-evaluatewhat we are slowly losing….The Moon and the Sledgehammer ( Anthology Film Archives) — This lost gem from the early 1970s casts quite a hypnotizing spell as it profiles a truly eccentric English family living on an estate in the country. The Moon and the Sledgehammer is a lovely lesson in how to turn a potentially exploitative subject into something much more tender and poetic 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

If you would like to join the audience on this special occasion please see cinema box office details below. Did you know the family, or visit their home? Do you have any questions about the film? If you are a fan of the film this is an occasion not to be missed. Inside a now crumbling shipyard where Clydeside pride once produced world class master voyagers of the seas, a transformational function has taken place which strides into the future with the same boldness, confidence and fine craftsmanship of its former occupants. 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. 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. 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.

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Trevelyan’s other documentaries from the 1970s and early 1980s – about lambing, the life of an old pub, traditional pottery and classical musicians rehearsing – reflect his interests in people who, he says, often do practical work with their hands, unlike the rest of us who “are doing our best to do as little as possible, and ask machines to do it for us”.

The film will screen as part of the Cambridge Film Trust’s Film Festival. There will be two screenings on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th of the August bank holiday. She has exhibited, curated and held residencies around the world as well as being a respected and published spokeswoman for the visual arts where she has contributed to a broad range of initiatives in Scotland and has served as a board member on many arts organisations. She was also elected to the Royal Scottish Academy and was inducted into the ‘Outstanding Women of Scotland’ by the Saltire Society in 2017. 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. The film was my compass for Gallivant and my accomplice for This Filthy Earth. It has nurtured me and fed me. Jon Bang Carlsen must have drunk from the same trough, as his companion films It’s Now or Never (1966) and How to Invent Reality (1996) contain smidgeons of the same spellbinding. Ben Rivers’ This Is My Land (2006) is a magnificent pretender and then of course there’s Stalker… A peaceful and cheerful walk taken by two little girls in the middle of nature, away from the eyes of grown-ups. But the joy gradually starts disappearing and the reverie becomes nostalgia, while at the edge of the road, among the rotting summer fruit, faint faces appear. The cycle of life does not diminish the magic of the world, no matter whether it is lit by the moon or by the sun.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 artists and filmmakers across Yorkshire and the Humber, the North East and Cumbria from the ‘60s to the early There is no reality to their world, moreover it is a world of self-imposed narrative illusion. They live, as we still live, amongst the detritus of contingency, solidarity and irony. They live between what’s real and what’s fantasy. Their truths might even appear eccentric or quaint, but they are truths manifest as trace elements from the haptic events of their lives. Hands-on. The buzz continued to the after-party, full of stimulating chat and not a mobile phone in sight. Think that says it all!

He first met Trevelyan 50 years ago at the Berlin Film Festival when the film screened there in 1971, allowing him the rare opportunity to have observed the film’s continued success over half a century. 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 EarthA truly remarkable film that shows how much can be achieved with so little. Booth’s eye-opening documentary is about a centre in India which provides free prosthetic limbs for the many people, largely the poorest in society, who have lost one or both limbs. In 1990 a writer for The Times of London described “THE MOON AND THE SLEDGEHAMMER” as “one of the most original British films”. Following the screening a conversation will be held with director Philip Trevelyan, Alastair McIntosh and David Archibald, hosted by Sam Ainsley A dynamic combination of the old and the new – a 50 year old film screening in the most forward thinking sustainable venue