The buzz continued to the after-party, full of stimulating chat and not a mobile phone in sight. Think that says it all!

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(1996) 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… Following the screening a conversation will be held with director Philip Trevelyan, Alastair McIntosh and David Archibald, hosted by Sam Ainsley 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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Birthday screening at Picturehouse Central with Philip Trevelyan, Maxine Peake and John Russell Taylor, hosted by Gareth Evans 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. 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….

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. 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. 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. We are in the world of Philip Trevelyan’s The Moon and The Sledgehammer. It is 1971 and the spell has been cast. It was maybe ten years later that I saw the film. Transfixed, it transformed the way in which I would make my own work. A template for the believable heaviness of making.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.

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.The woodland is their only world and within it we experience a man-powered-steam-driven-sweat-soaked-metal-wonder, alive to the noise of physical exertion and out-of-tune pianos. It is littered with heavy metal, rusty spanners, disemboweled car carcasses, manicured lawns, embroidered doilies and carefully pruned roses. It is a paradox fresh-out of Samuel Butler’s Erewohn. 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”. 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. 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 A reception for all audience members will be held after the discussion session. This will be filmed and will include many interviews with the select gathering. Watch out for it as an extra on the DVD in the future.

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

Giveaway

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. In 1990 a writer for The Times of London described “THE MOON AND THE SLEDGEHAMMER” as “one of the most original British films”. 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 is showing at Brighton Festival, 4.30pm Sunday 29 May, complete with Q&A and traction engine. THE MOON AND THE SLEDGEHAMMER screening at The Revelator, 5th Nov, 17.30 Barclay Curle Complex, 739 South St, Glasgow G14 0BX