mobile logo

Archive

4th August 2022

The Longer Way Down

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7995" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7997" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text]115 Days, 21 Countries, 17002 Miles. Heartbreak, elation, anger, relief, disgust, romance. Not a novel you’d read on the toilet, but two 24 year olds on a journey down the west coast of Africa in one of overlanding’s finest: a 1998 Toyota Land Cruiser (lightly rusted) with...

By PatrickB
0
0
3rd August 2022

Austin Vince: The Best Film Title Sequences of the 1960s

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7981" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text]Mondofest curator Austin, takes us on a whistle-stop tour of some of the greatest movie title sequences of the 1960s. He holds firmly to the idea that the title sequence should tell you what the film is about and what  it's going to feel like. Almost like a trailer....

By PatrickB
0
0
28th June 2022

Suffocating the Cat: Land Cruising with Chris Scott

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7964" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7965" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text]When Chris Scott branched out from motorcycles to 4x4 exploration in the Sahara, there was only one vehicle on his list: Toyota’s legendary Land Cruiser. It was while regularly travelling the Australian Outback for Rough Guides years earlier that he grew to admire these rugged workhorses with...

By PatrickB
0
0
20th May 2022

Rebecca Lowe: London to Tehran by Bicycle

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7856" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7858" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] In 2015, as the Syrian War raged and the refugee crisis reached its peak, Rebecca Lowe, a journalist specialising in human rights, set off on her bicycle from London to Tehran. Driven by a desire to learn more about this troubled region, to challenge Western myths and misconceptions...

By PatrickB
0
0
20th May 2022

Max Leonard: The Rough Stuff Fellowship

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7859" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7862" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7860" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text]The Rough Stuff Fellowship was founded on 29 May 1955, by ‘forty members who, in pursuit of their pastime, traverse the rougher and less beaten ways’. Members of the RSF undertook the first ever bicycle crossing of Iceland’s mountainous interior, in 1958, and have travelled...

By PatrickB
0
0
20th May 2022

Nick Hunt: John Murray Journeys

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7868" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image="7896" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Alongside a screening of Double Journey (Mariann Lewinsky, Antonio Bigini), John Murray Journeys series editor Nick Hunt presents Ella K. Maillart’s The Cruel Way, accompanied by excerpts from Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s All the Roads Are Open. In 1939, adventurer and writer Ella K. Maillart set off on an epic drive from Geneva to Kabul, accompanied...

By PatrickB
0
0
20th May 2022

Ursula Martin: One Woman Walks

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7867" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] For the last decade, Ursula Martin has either been walking or writing about walking. Her most recent journey took her 5000+ miles across Europe, from Ukraine to Spain. Living spontaneously means you’re prepared for many difficulties, but nothing prepared her for the interruption of a pandemic. Come and listen to tales...

By PatrickB
0
0
20th May 2022

George Miller: Kaiser George Marionettes

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="7865" img_size="large"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] Mondofest Keynote Presentation [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="16px"][vc_column_text] Kaiser George Miller is an exceptional human being. As well as being the lead singer and driving force behind ‘The Kaisers’, he is also the creator of the famous ‘Kaiser George Marionettes’. Join him on an exciting musical journey as he takes us through the A...

By PatrickB
0
0