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Title: ACRE OF SUNDAYS, an

Reference number: 6893

Date: 1965*

Director: d. David Lewis

Production company: International Film Associates (Scotland) Ltd.

Sound: sound

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.03 mins

Description: An unsettling, experimental documentary film combining scenes from around Glasgow with sudden noise and silence, and discordant, distorted sounds and voices. It has no voiceover commentary.

Note: Original negative film only held at the National Library of Scotland Moving IMage Archive.

Credits: ph. David Lewis
p. facilities IFA (Scotland) Ltd
stills John Schorstein, David Lewis
m. composed by The JSD Band

Shotlist: An unsettling, experimental documentary film combining scenes from around Glasgow with sudden noise and silence, and discordant, distorted sounds and voices. It has no voiceover commentary.

There's a scene at a market - the Barras? - with a small boy holding two capuchin monkeys dressed as humans. There is also a disjunctive scene with two market stall holders throwing their goods around in a well-practised sales performance.

The film concludes with scenes of urban decay, desolation and homelessness, with still photographs of derelict homeless people distorted, twisting their features.