TICKETS
$16 Adults
$14 Seniors 60+, Students/Children, & Military/Veteran/First Responder
SHOWTIMES
Friday, May 2, 2025, 1:00pm
Saturday, May 3 2025, 1:00pm
‘R’ 80min
https://www.themusichall.org/events/the-hermit-of-treig/
For the past four decades, Ken Smith has lived alone in the Scottish Highlands. His home is a log cabin nestled near Loch Treig, known as “the lonely loch.” Ken has no electricity or running water — he lives off the land, fishes for his supper, chops wood, and even brews his own alcohol. Filmed over 10 years, director Lizzie Mackenzie poetically captures Ken’s profound, spiritual relationship with the wilderness.
As Ken likes to say, “if you love the land, it loves you back.”
Now in his 70s, Ken reflects upon the reasons he turned his back on society, the vulnerability of old age, and the wonder of a life lived in nature in this humorous, transcendent and life-affirming BAFTA Award-winning feature documentary.
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SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR CINEMA SERIES SPONSOR, NEWBURYPORT BANK.