LIFTING THE LID OF THE COMPOST TOILET
A FILM BY NICK FENTON
AT LAST AVAILABLE IN DVD FORMAT!!
For some 40 years the 16th Century farm cottage that is Dial House has been the base of operations for a number of cultural, artistic and political projects. These range from avant-garde jazz events to helping to found the free festival movement, from hosting Permaculture courses to setting up the Anarchist punk band CRASS.
'Lifting the Lid of the Compost Toilet', made by BAFTA award winning film maker Nick Fenton (Taking Liberties, The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off), documents the building of a compost toilet at Dial House over two very hot days in July 2002. As well as providing a glimpse of the Dial House ethos at work, this is also a practical guide that can enable and empower anybody to turn the 'problem' of human waste into a valuable source of fertility.
NB. Includes strong language, incidental nudity and dubious puns.
Main feature running time approx 19 minutes
This new DVD version also includes a number of extra features, including a photographic step-by-step slide show guide to how we built the Dial House compost toilet (see below), a collection of inspiring images of the Dial House garden and house, and film of former Crass drummer Penny Rimbaud and sax player Louise Elliott performing in New York as 'Last Amendment' in November 2006.
Additional DVD features
1) Lifting the Lid - Step by Step. A short walkthrough guide to the building of the Dial House compost toilet (approx 7 and a half minutes - click to view this film at YouTube)
2) Images of Dial House - soundtrack by CRASS (approx 10 minutes)
3) Last Amendment performing Penny Rimbaud's 'Oh America', New York November 2006 (approx 12 minutes)
Price; £8.00 plus postage
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