PRIDE

We watched a really good British film a month ago and I wanted to recommend it.

It's set during the miner's strike in 1984/5 and presents the true story of the alliance between a London based LGBT group and a south Wales mining village.

I tell you it was good film. Obviously events were conflated, edited out, adapted and fictionalised. But watching in church as part of our film club was a liberating and incredibly refreshing experience. 

I feel that we had been sleepwalking in an older 19th century theology for so long. But over the past 7 or 8 years we have been waking up. Screening this film is another step in our struggle for true consciousness appropriate to the 21st century here in London. NOW!

If you haven't seen it yet than watch it. It's a great film!

Click here for a link to the film's entry on IMDB

Click here for a link to a review of the film in the Guardian

Click here for one of my favourite clips from the film

Click here for a link to a featurette  about the film. Brilliant!!

Forest, Field and Sky - a BBC 4 documentary

I watched a really interesting documentary on creating art out of the natural landscape. James Fox considers the work of 6 artists including David Nash's Ash Dome in Snowdonia, in Cumbria he visit's Andy Goldsworthy and his fragile work Tree Wall then to the Outer Hebrides to see a work by Julie Brook.  On Exmoor Fox travels Richard Long's straight line. Then a garden designed andcreated by Charles Jencks and finally a work by James Turrell. 

Click here for a link to Forest, Field and Sky

Intimate Cartography by Jon Clay

Here is a visual poem my friend and colleague Jon Clay. What follows are his words, photographs and videos.

Click here for a link to the poem