Glastopia

In this personal film Julien Temple who directed the definitive documentary history of the Glastonbury Festival explores the alternative side of the festival away from the spotlight of the main stages with their global pop superstars In fields known as Shangri La Arcadia the Unfair Ground Strummerville Block 9 and the Common every year an unlikely attempt at utopia takes shape Here the festival reconnects with its radical countercultural origins combining underground music performance art and some of the funniest and most provocative sights of the festival with a dark urgent 21st century spontaneity Filmed at the 2011 festival this 75 minute documentary features Michael Eavis the creators of and visitors to the true heart of the Glastonbury and fuelled by the music of tomorrow explores the hopes dreams and personal utopias of those who for one weekend in June come together as the tribes of 21st Century Albion