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Steven Soderbergh, the director behind Out of Sight, Erin Brockovich and Sex, Lies, and Videotape, has ostensibly retired from the film industry, describing 2013's Side Effects as his "last film". But it appears Soderbergh can't stay away from cinema for too long.

The director's latest project, unveiled via his website, extension765.com, has been to turn Steven Spielberg's classic 1981 action adventure, Raiders of the Lost Ark, black and white, and strip it of all sound.

^{A still from Sodertbergh's new editof Raiders of the Lost Ark}

On his blog, the director writes: "I want you to watch this movie and think only about staging, how the shots are built and laid out, what the rules of movement are, what the cutting patterns are. See if you can reproduce the thought process that resulted in these choices by asking yourself: why was each shot, whether short or long, held for that exact length of time and placed in that order? Sounds like fun, right? It actually is. To me."

^{A still from Sodertbergh's new edit}

Previous recuts undertaken by Soderbergh since his "retirement" have included a mash-up of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho and Gus Van Sant's 1991 colour remake, which combined the two into one film, and a new, dramatically shorter "Butcher's Cut" of Michael Cimino's epic 1980 Western, Heaven's Gate.