Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
A week-long online film event about our relationship with nature and imagining a sustainable future on Earth.
Watch on the Cinema of Ideas from 9-16 September: cinemaofideas.org.uk/events/life-in-the-woods/?utm_source=YT-Trailer&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Life-In-The-Woods
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Presented as two films and a live conversation, Life in the Woods celebrates the wonder which can be found in nature and charts a path towards a more sustainable way of living.
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.
Then, in the endlessly fascinating The Moon and Sledgehammer (1971) we see that beyond the Page family’s eccentricities their words hint at a wise scepticism about modern society’s relationship with the planet and its attitude towards the land, mechanisation and technology.
Alongside these two wonderful films we will be joined on Tuesday 13 September by Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese, authors of the recently-published Half-Earth Socialism, to discuss the book and their plan for a future free from extinction, climate change and pandemics.
This event is available to watch worldwide. Book your ticket here: cinemaofideas.org.uk/events/life-in-the-woods/?utm_source=YT-Trailer&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Life-In-The-Woods
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A week-long online film event about our relationship with nature and imagining a sustainable future on Earth.
Watch on the Cinema of Ideas from 9-16 September: cinemaofideas.org.uk/events/life-in-the-woods/?utm_source=YT-Trailer&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Life-In-The-Woods
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Presented as two films and a live conversation, Life in the Woods celebrates the wonder which can be found in nature and charts a path towards a more sustainable way of living.
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.
Then, in the endlessly fascinating The Moon and Sledgehammer (1971) we see that beyond the Page family’s eccentricities their words hint at a wise scepticism about modern society’s relationship with the planet and its attitude towards the land, mechanisation and technology.
Alongside these two wonderful films we will be joined on Tuesday 13 September by Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese, authors of the recently-published Half-Earth Socialism, to discuss the book and their plan for a future free from extinction, climate change and pandemics.
This event is available to watch worldwide. Book your ticket here: cinemaofideas.org.uk/events/life-in-the-woods/?utm_source=YT-Trailer&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Life-In-The-Woods
#cinemaofideas #lifeinthewoods
