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Title Glastonbury / Director: Temple, Julien
Published Australia : ABC2, 2006
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Summary *Coarse Language, Drug Use, Nudity and Sexual References*Imagine if Woodstock, the defining cultural event of the Sixties, had continued to exist over the last three decades. How would it have changed, evolved and adapted to a world which was being completely rewritten around it? How much of the idealism and communality of the original event would have survived? How much would the inexorable pressures of consumerism and corporate sponsorship have transformed the founding ethos of the event? And what a powerful mirror it would hold up to the extraordinary changes which have taken place in the way we live our lives in the last 30 years. Of course Woodstock and most of the other music festivals of the era did not survive. Only one did and its name is Glastonbury.The mirror exists. The contrast between the unchanging spirit which remains at the heart of the UK's Glastonbury Festival and the overwhelming difference in the way we now live our lives, forms the central dynamic of this film. Of course the festival itself and the individuals behind it have had to adapt and respond to the commercial, political and cultural changes which have taken place around them, but the founding vision of the festival has never been devalued.Fuelled by the staggering range of music which has appeared at Glastonbury over the years, the film humorously accesses all its areas, inviting the audience to submerge themselves in the spirit, characters and overwhelming sensory experiences of the festival.PRODUCTION DETAILS:Director: Julien Temple, producer Robert Richards; Executive producers: Jane Hawley & Dave Henderson
Event Broadcast 2011-09-04 at 20:30:00
Notes Classification: M
Subject Documentary films.
Drug abuse.
Intellectual life.
Music festivals.
Spiritualism.
England -- Glastonbury.
Form Streaming video
Author Bowie, David, cast
Bragg, Billy, cast
Brown, James, cast
Cave, Nick, cast
Eavis, Michael, cast
Strummer, Joe, cast
Temple, Julien, director