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TUESDAY 11TH MARCH | 7pm | £10 ADV / £7 + BOOKING FEEToad Lickers Film Club presents a screening of the 1971 cult documentary The Moon and the Sledgehammer which follows the eccentric lives of the Page family living off-grid in rural West Sussex.
Maxine Peake chose The Moon and the Sledgehammer as her Desert Island Doc at the Sheffield Doc Fest:
“They can fix anything! What’s extraordinary about it is I don’t think you could ever make another documentary like it ever again. It’s beautiful; very poetic. He’s very articulate, Mr Page. They sort of all are. There’s something about all of them that their use of language is extraordinary. They feel like some sort of poem; an ode to another way of life. The old English ethos, the connection with the land, the pagan element running through… Something very magical and quite spiritual about it….”
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Toad Lickers Collective are an arts organisation based in Sussex, exploring contemporary culture, alternative histories focused on working class history, folklore and the arts. We host Toad Lickers Film Club every second Tuesday of the month at The Rose Hill in Brighton.
Join us in 2025 for a cinematic journey through England’s green and maybe not so pleasant land.
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Doors: 7pm
Short film/ talk: 7.30pm
Screening: 8pm
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
70-71 Rose Hill Terrace, BN1 4JL Brighton, United Kingdom, 73 Rose Hill Terrace, Brighton, BN1 4JL, United Kingdom
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