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GRASP THE NETTLE at Cine-Rebis London

Presented by: Cine-Rebis
0LONDON : The Horse Hospital
PThursday 14th November, 2013
N6:20pm

Event information

GRASP THE NETTLE
Dir: Dean Puckett | UK, 2013 | 89 mins

ADVANCED, DISCOUNTED TICKETS £3.50 + BOOKING FEE
OR £5 ON THE DOOR.

Grasp the Nettle follows the exploits of a ragtag band of land rights activists in London as they struggle against corporations, government, police - and themselves - in their efforts to create alternative communities outside the framework of consumer society.

When an eco-village pops up on a piece of disused land in West London , film-maker Dean Puckett (The Crisis of Civilization) gives up everything - his flat, job and normal life - to live among its eclectic inhabitants in an effort to understand what makes them tick. Before he knows it, he is pulled into an epic, inspiring and at times harrowing journey of discovery, as he follows the villagers from the suburbs to the heart of London outside the Palace of Westminster, where they occupy Parliament Square. Their ranks swelled by the homeless, the visionaries and eccentrics of the new-found Democracy Village clash with authority, and each other, as they grapple with how to balance their ideals of freedom with the increasing chaos around them.

Shot over three years in the aftermath of the 2008 banking collapse, Grasp the Nettle is an intimate exploration of the rise and fall of two radical social experiments, pioneered by the loved and the lost of a city reeling from the impact of economic and ecological crisis. In the process, it asks hard questions about the nature of freedom and the meaning of activism in ‘interesting times’.

See full programme here: http://theundergroundfilmstudio.co.uk/cine-rebis/

Venue information

LONDON : The Horse Hospital
0Colonnade
Bloomsbury
London
WC1N 1JD
> www.thehorsehospital.com

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