Elephant (1989)
January 25, 1989Release Date
Elephant (1989)
January 25, 1989Release Date


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Cast & Crew.

Andrew Downs

Terry Doyle

Gavin Bloomer

Alan Clarke
Director

Philip Dawson
Director of Photography

Bernard MacLaverty
Writer

John Ward
Director of Photography

Don O'Donovan
Editor

Danny Boyle
Producer

Hamish Fyfe

Trevor Moore

Stephen Potter

David McDade

Mark O'Donnell

Mike Maxwell

Michael Magee

Nigel Craig

William Walker

Brian Giffen

Billy Dee

Michael Fieldhouse

William McAllister

Bobby Stinton

Michael Liebman
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Elephant is a 1989 British short film directed by Alan Clarke and produced by Danny Boyle. The film is set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles and its title comes from Bernard MacLaverty's description of the conflict as "the elephant in our living room" β a reference to the collective denial of the underlying social problems of Northern Ireland. Produced by BBC Northern Ireland, it first screened on BBC2 in 1989. The film was first conceived by Boyle, who was working as a producer for BBC Northern Ireland at the time.
The film, which contains very little dialogue, depicts eighteen murders and is partly based on actual events drawn from police reports at the time. It is shot with 16mm film with much of it filmed using a steadicam and features a series of tracking shots, a technique the director used regularly. The grainy 16mm film, together with the lack of dialogue, plot, narrative and music, give the film a cold, observational documentary feel. Nothing is learnt about any of the gunmen or victims. Each of the murders is carried out calmly and casually; in one scene the gunman is seen to drive away slowly, even stopping to give way for traffic. Most of the vignettes end with the camera lingering on the motionless body of the victim.
As with several of Clarke's films, Elephant received high praise and attracted controversy. After watching the film, Clarke's contemporary David Leland wrote: "I remember lying in bed, watching it, thinking, 'Stop, Alan, you can't keep doing this.' And the cumulative effect is that you say, 'It's got to stop. The killing has got to stop.' Instinctively, without an intellectual process, it becomes a gut reaction."
The film influenced Gus Van Sant's 2003 film Elephant, based on the Columbine High School Massacre. Van Sant's film borrowed not only Clarke's title, but also closely mirrors his minimalist style.
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