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.

Notwithstanding the family members’ less than perfect articulation and the logical flaws of their arguments, theirs is a life lived philosophically. Taking into account the very specific parameters of Trevelyan’s project, what we get is finally of considerably more significance than what we don’t.

Research revealed that only one ninety-year-old man retained this secret knowledge of glassmaking – knowledge in jeopardy of disappearing. 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. 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! 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

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. 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. 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.Markku Lehmuskallio’s remarkable and mesmerising film is a symphony to the beauties of the earth and its creatures in all its harmonies, simplicities and complexities. But where does man fit into this symphony? First, Lucile Hadžihalilović’s short De Natura (2018) offers a beautifully-crafted view of our relationship with wild nature from the perspective of a child’s eye: one which sees both its wonder and its harshness.

artefacts, paintings (Eden Kötting) and film installations. Kotting’s own Gallivant screens on 2nd December. 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. 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 As the threat of a lost legacy looms, the documentary follows the story of the Masagá glassmakers who agreed to recreate bikini glass. Trailer: https://vimeo.com/636965305The world’s all to pieces, isn’t it? They’re like a lot of rats and mice in England. They don’t know what they are going to do. It’s a good job the moon’s well up there too, I’ve got room enough to swing a sledgehammer underneath him without hitting of him. He’s well out of my way. But if they had their way they’d get the moon down you know and they’d be trying to wheel him along the road on two wheels. Simpson, Paul (2010). The Rough Guide to Cult Movies. Rough Guides Limited. ISBN 978-1-84836-213-0. THE MOON AND THE SLEDGEHAMMER screening at The Revelator, 5th Nov, 17.30 Barclay Curle Complex, 739 South St, Glasgow G14 0BX 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 of artists’ moving image in England. The project surveys an array of production strategies deployed by video

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. 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. This event has blossomed and expanded, like a well cared for plant. We are now hosting a film festival where each film makes a different statement about versions and visions of sustainability and the high cost of progress.He spent six years as a professor, lecturing on film at the famous University of Southern California whose alumni include John Carpenter and George Lucas. Following the screening a conversation will be held with director Philip Trevelyan, Alastair McIntosh and David Archibald, hosted by Sam Ainsley 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….