Bait (2019)

At the very least, this is a movie to be curious about. 

It looks and feels like it was made six to eight decades ago, and dug up from some archives.  It was shot with a clockwork camera on 16 mm black-and-white film that was less than pristine.  This was then hand processed by the director himself, 100 feet at a time.  The shooting style puts an emphasis on extreme close ups- of faces, hands, eyes, knots, ripped nets, even dead fish.  The editing is a mix of quick cuts, flashbacks and flash forwards.  All of this is in service of a straightforward story of tussles in a fishing village on the Cornish coast of Britain.

Yet for all this strangeness, it makes for a compelling viewing experience.  As one reviewer described it, it is “a visually arresting expressionist mood piece that’s quite unlike anything you’ve seen before.”

Here’s a link to the trailer.