Photograph Of Jesus by Laurie Hill in association with the Getty Images Short & Sweet Film Challenge

Short and Sweet has teamed up with Getty Images to launch a film challenge with a twist.
Getty Images approached producer Basil Stephens and Short and Sweet founder Julia Stephenson with the idea of setting up a film competition which would make use of images in Getty's Hulton Archive. Stephenson drew from her in-depth knowledge of the short film arena to suggest a selection of talented filmmakers.
After picking out ten up-and-coming directors, she gave them the opportunity to pitch. Four of the filmmakers made it on to the shortlist and got the chance to realise their ideas. They were given three months to create their films.




The challenges aim was to highlight the breadth and depth of content available at the Hulton Archive, which offers a unique resource to filmmakers and creatives alike. But rather than set a rigid brief, the challenge offered key words and phrases as prompters to guide the filmmakers creativity. Examples of these prompters included discover our past, images that shape our future, still & moving imagery, ordinary people, ordinary things and extraordinary people, extraordinary things.

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[aviciousabyss]

I really enjoyed this video. The artistic aspect of the cutouts and the archives is a really nice contrast, but it makes me want to reach in and see what else I can find! This really makes me wish I had video talents so I could put some of the ridiculous requests from my job into visual. It amazes me on a day-to-day basis, how ridiculous people can be.

[MasterSubLink]

I am glad people are discussing religion in the comments when it has little relevance to the video.

[gaiagraphics]

BRAVO!!

This is a great video, one of the best short videos I've seen to date. Especially when you realize a bunch of archives could have been handled so badly. Great job! Even the narration is fantastic! Thanks to all.

[hsodaye]

Amazing work, wonderfully made creative and lot of handwork behind it, superb job done.

[HDCAMAN]

Awesome!

[kir3txsbcglobalnet]

There is a 3 -D photo of Jesus on his burial shroud!

[TheAndrewforsyth]

Hi Matt,

Sorry, I had that photo of Jesus in my bag when I left. Will return asap.

Andrew

[jongoodstein]

This is one of the most brilliant things I have ever seen... what a gift!

[BluntspearAnimation]

Saw this at Doc Heads. People and their strange requests

[MetzArt666]

Hey I just wanted to say this is a briliant animation/ short. The first time I saw it was in woodgreen film festival and I voted it to be the best shorts of the days shows. I was glad to hear it was selected as the winner last year in that festival. I just wanted to say keep up the good work. I really like your work

[DCDUO]

I think most of these are mick-takes that they didn't get tbh.

[nye1956]

An absolutely beautiful film, thanks for sharing! :o)