Hawkwind plays the final Peoples' Free Festival at Stonehenge during the Summer Solstice and this tiny snippet of film is an amazing yet important document of a time when there was still the free spirit of independence and nonconformity. Blasting its audience into deep space with their high-octane space rock and surreal theatrics of it lead-singer, it really is time to buckle your seat belts and take a trip into times' long gone past.

Mapping a Seattle landscape as the season turns, this film is an optical print of original handmade frames. Featuring hydrangea, geranium, nandina, camillia, oregano, vinca, snapdragon, cyclamen, violet, linden, clematis, linaria, birch bark and daphne. Music by Bay Area composer, arranger, and jazz bassist Chuck Metcalf used with permission.

Solstice d’Hiver was Hill’s last single-channel video before the recently completed Goats and Sheep and Blind Spot. The work was recorded in real time and was taped December 21, between the hours of 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. At the beginning the camera moves in slow increments around a sun bathed room, gently embracing objects contained within as if seen for the first and last time. The scene is almost silent, with the occasional sound of the autofocus on the camera lens readjusting as it searches for a subject to focus on. A figure, the artist, enters into the frame and with determined slowness places a record on a record player. It is a sound composition by the avant garde composer Alvin Lucier entitled, “I am Sitting in a Room."

Shot in côte d'Amour, in January 2022.

OPERATION SOLSTICE recounts the story of how 420 people were arrested on 1 June 1985 on their way to Stonehenge to hold the 11th People's Free Festival. Using video footage, the police radio log, photographs and personal testimony to recreate what became known as the `BATTLE OF THE BEANFIELD

4 Zillenials pilgrimage to the Spiritual Capital of the UK - Milton Keynes - to celebrate the Summer Solstice through ritual and vlogging.

In Between Solstices (II/II)

Featuring a trippy brand of space rock, Alan Davey's Bedouin blasts off with a set that includes "Dagger Dance," "Ancient Light," "Chasing the Dragon" and other songs in this 2002 concert at the Hamilton House Farm in northwest England. Also included is a documentary with appearances by Gun Law ("Local Boy"), Spacehead ("Fyre Dragons," "Dark Star"), Stereovaccine, Doghouse, Mr. Quimby's Beard and Harvey Bainbridge.

Recorded over three days during the 2010 Summer Solstice at Penmaenau Farm, Builth, Wales. The headlining Hawklords (featuring Nik Turner & Ron Tree of Hawkwind) are here in all their glory as well as some tracks from support acts Gunslinger, Litmus, Pre-Med, Dr Has Been, Quintessence, Darxtar, Anubis and more. Four hours of Sonic Rock!

Recorded live at the Stonehenge Festival during the solstice on 21st June 1984, this was the last year the festival took place before it was broken up and banned by the authorities.

Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold has announced his first livestream since the release of his fourth record, Shore. A Very Lonely Solstice Livestream will happen on the winter solstice, December 21, at 9 p.m. Eastern.

"The operations that dislocate a film like Summer Solstice– I hope irreparably– from being a movie about the locomotion and eating habits of cows, a dairy farm document, or what have you, are finally of a whole lot less concern to me than the following things: how it looks, the sense that probably it was done deliberately, the pleasure or displeasure– the intrigue, possibly– of attempting to retrieve the manner in which it was done while one is watching." -HF

Alexander von Humboldt climbs a volcano. A parade comes to town.