'If...'

'If...' Is a 1968 British drama film produced and directed by Lindsay Anderson satirizing English public school life. Famous for its depiction of a savage insurrection at a fictitious boys boarding school, the X certificate film was made at the time of the May 1968 protests in France by a director strongly associated with the 1960's counterculture. The film, very suggestive and sometimes confusing, leaves the viewer open to their own interpretation of certain events and scenes which happen in the film. One of the best scenes in the film is the 'café scene', when Mick Travis, played by Malcolm McDowell, and 'The Girl', Played by Christine Noonan, play fight and attack each other in the café acting like lions, which is rather strange to watch seen as though they have only just met. The filming suggestively provokes the idea of the play fighting leading to sex even though nothing physical is shown, just some short clips of nudity. Further into the film Mick Travis finds a dead fetus in a jar and quicky hands it over to 'the girl' dismissing it completely; unsure of how to respond. Thus representing what could have been,something not realised until the end of film when they die together. This film has given me the idea to create a short performance film suggesting the stereotypical primitive nature of both genders, female and male. The idea of 'what could be' if people in the future would possibly go back to interacting with each other the same way they did many centuries ago.