Concord & Conflict: Roderick Buchanan

                                    by Caroline Douglas


War movies generally come with an agenda of prickly questions that don't yield to easy answers. Roderick Buchanan's new film tentatively titled Elephant confronts contemporary issues through a battle fought long ago.

“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.”