WanderFilm: Free Party: A Folk History with Zoom Q&A

Dir. Aaron Trinder | 2024 | 107 mins plus Zoom Q&A | English 

This DIY indie film follows the birth of the UK’s free party movement in the late 80s and early 90s and the social, political and cultural impact it's had on our present times. For Conservatives, the movement's DIY, anti-consumerist lifestyle, prophetic environmental concerns, radical direct-action, anti-road protest and animal welfare ethos threatened the foundations of the State. The film explores the inception of the movement, a meeting between urban ravers and the new age travellers during Thatcher's last days in power, and the explosive years that followed, leading up the infamous Castlemorton free festival in 1992 - the largest ever illegal rave, which provoked the drastic change of the laws of trespass with the notorious introduction of the Criminal Justice Act in 1994. 

Eschewing tired formulaic filmmaking styles and tokenistic big name DJ sound-bites, this exhilarating modern day folktale is told exclusively by those who were in the thick of it and features interviews with members of Spiral Tribe, DIY Sound system, Bedlam and many others.

What is WanderFilm?

In the run up to the annual festival Wanderfal run by The Cornish Bank (more info on Wanderfal here) The Poly will be running a music film festival presenting a series of music films both old and new. 

If you have already bought a ticket to Wanderfal or are a member of The Poly we are able to offer you a discounted ticket to the WanderFilm films (just click the relevant person group at checkout).

After each of the WanderFilm films you can also take your Poly film ticket to The Cornish Bank to get one half priced drink.  

Tuesday 16th April, 7:30pm

Tickets: £9.00/£7.50/£5.50

A £1 Poly Fund payment is added to each ticket sold.