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Schalcken the Painter

Schalcken the Painter. Leslie Megahey, 1979.
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Edition screened: BFI 'Flipside' Blu-ray # 028, released 2013. English language. Runtime approximately 70 minutes.

Summary: Arrangements of dead birds and rabbits.

Details:
1) Much of the film concerns painting of Dutch still life compositions, and the typical inclusion of animals is shown 3:31-3:40, 8:18-8:49, and 52:20-52:35.
2) A goose is plucked 28:25-28:32.

The BFI release includes two additional short films, Edward Abraham’s The Pit (1962) Digby Rumsey’s The Pledge (1981).