Elephant (1989)
UK
Short Television Film
Director: Alan Clarke
Writer: Bernard MacLaverty
Cinematographers: Philip Dawson, John Ward
Alan Clarke presents us with a series of sectarian killings in Northern Ireland – stripped of politics, rhetoric, history, context, and team colours – leaving us with their very essence – casually brutal murder, in this devastating, plotless masterpiece, in which death is only accompanied by the sound of life whirring gently on in the form of cars passing, dogs barking, lifts traversing, and footsteps echoing. Iain.Stott
