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CGAA Cinema: David Gladwell's An Untitled Film (1964)

I'll kick this off with something completely from the left-field. David Gladwell is perhaps most famous for being the editor of Lindsay Anderson's disaffected classics   If... and O Lucky Man!. H e is a talented director too and went on to make the utterly bizarre and disturbing  Requiem for a Village , an anthropological study of the inhabitants of Suffolk farming village as machinery begins to take over from traditional methods of labour.  An   Untitled Film, like  Requiem , is a film of contradicting and unexpected images centered around farming. It's  filmed in  luscious slow motion, so that the actions of the humans and animals become both utterly chaotic and magnificent. It's quite strange, but let let the images suck you in. Disclaimer: The film does imply that a live chicken is killed, but it's not graphic. However - don't watch if you'd rather not see!