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

We are thrilled to have a distinguished selection of Scottish voices joining director Philip Trevelyan in conversation following the screening. Each one excels in their field and has shown that creativity, inventiveness and dedication can find solutions to many problems. 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. 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. 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.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 homogenized society Giveaway

But where is the balance? At what point does Civilization penetrating into nature become an act of plunder? 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. 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.)Scotsman article on The Revelator: https://tinyurl.com/39t65yt4 This special event has been created by film distributor Katy MacMillan and artist Stephen Skrynka . 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 THE MOON AND THE SLEDGEHAMMER screening at The Revelator, 5th Nov, 17.30 Barclay Curle Complex, 739 South St, Glasgow G14 0BX 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. 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.