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of artists’ moving image in England. The project surveys an array of production strategies deployed by video

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… 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. The Moon and the Sledgehammer was produced and distributed by Vaughan, a well-known and much loved entrepreneur of the film scene, who had a unique flair for publicity. Among his many claims to fame was that he discovered Andy Warhol. He also distributed works by many other underground and political film makers but it was through the Warhol connection that The Moon and the Sledgehammer came to be distributed. The dvd is now available through www.themoonandthesledgehammer.com and Andrew Kotting’s In the Wake of a Deadad project can be seen at Dilston Grove, Southwark Park, London from October 4 th – November 11 th (visit The Moon and the Sledgehammer is showing at Brighton Festival, 4.30pm Sunday 29 May, complete with Q&A and traction engine.At the Film Society, Lincoln Center, New York, America’s great cultural institution, as part of their prestigious documentary festival.

In 1990 a writer for The Times of London described “THE MOON AND THE SLEDGEHAMMER” as “one of the most original British films”.artefacts, paintings (Eden Kötting) and film installations. Kotting’s own Gallivant screens on 2nd December. Together these films highlight that creative thinking and a will to change can actually change the world. It was a great birthday party for such a timeless and enduring film that continues to resonate throughout the decades. Following the screening a conversation will be held with director Philip Trevelyan, Alastair McIntosh and David Archibald, hosted by Sam Ainsley

This upgrade also ensures that the film will survive long into the future to be enjoyed by many generations to come. We are proud that we have successfully preserved the film, despite the fact that no funding is available for this and give our grateful thanks to Harvard University who recognized the importance of the film and generously supported us in ensuring its existence. We are thrilled with the results. As director Philip Trevelyan said when he viewed the restored copy “the film has come alive again”. Part of a double bill, the film will screen with ‘London Symphony’, a brand new silent film – a city symphony – which offers a poetic journey through the city of London. It is an artistic snapshot of

Towner Arts Gallery, Eastbourne 18 Nov 7.30

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.) Unbuilding the World: A conversation with Half-Earth Socialism authors Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese 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 . . . 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.

A second evening will be devoted entirely to some of his other, rarely seen works. To the absolute delight of film purists everywhere the films will be projected in their original 16mm. Films are the much lauded Ship Hotel – Tyne Main; Lambing, Trevelyan’s award winning student film and Big Ware, about the last traditional country potter. 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. 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. His marvelously offbeat tragicomedy takes less than seventy minutes to present an indelible microcosm, complete with ditties banged out on the family’s wheezing harmonium and out-of-tune piano, which Kath plays standing up. Darrell Hartman THE L MAGAZINE The Measure Thursday, June 4, 2009 This conversation will be hosted by Julia Brow, founder and programmer of No Planet B – an arts organisation inspiring environmental activism through film and culture.

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The moral of the film arises from the right to use Nature being equal for humans and animals. A human has a right to use nature to survive. Where an owl hunts a mole, a human shoots an elk. This year we had many plans in place to celebrate the 50th year of the film with a wonderful new DVD made from the amazing restored copy of the film, which also includes companion DVD Behind The Moon and The Sledgehammer. However, with cinemas closed and gatherings no longer possible, we have had to put our plans on hold which was very disappointing

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