It follows a group of local schoolchildren as they learn of the Viking invasion of Scotland and the mediaeval kingdom of Strathclyde. How will the children react when they learn that Vikings and Kings roamed around beneath their feet?

In its quiet, eccentric fashion, The Moon and the Sledgehammer challenges the accepted values of sanity and society” Together, this Clydeside phoenix and half century old film encapsulate the same philosophies, skills, inventiveness and the sheer joy of passion, creativity and living life to the fullest, showing the limitless realities of sustainable living and a superb example of a way forward which sends a powerful message proving what can be achieved with so little when dedication is no stranger and the imagination knows no bounds. I found them freer than most people. They had found a way of enjoying life and I wanted to capture that”. Over an hour, a remarkable vision of genuine freedom is explored, far from the constraints of conventional ways of being.” 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.

In supporting roles are a smallholder family living in the wilderness where the distant sound of civilization is encroaching into the forest, coming ever closer . . . At the helm a fascinating and flawed father, proverbial performer and interfering agitator. Two besuited brothers and those beautifully scrawny sisters. Self-sufficient beguilers and inefficient modernisers. This event has now ended. You can watch a recording of the conversation on our YouTube channel. ——— A week-long online film event about our relationship with nature 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.

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 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.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