Photograph of Jesus - Laurie Hill, 2008

Looking for photographs of Jesus, yetis and Hitler in 1948? Help is at hand with this documentary-fantasy based on true stories of requests for impossible images. Real-life archives become the stage where fact and fiction collide, belief runs amok and unruly images have a life of their own.


Photograph of Jesus by Laurie Hill in association with the Getty Images Short & Sweet Film Challenge from Hulton Archive on Vimeo.

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.

Director: Laurie HILL
7 min. 2008
Animation: Laurie Hill
Music: Toolshed Music
Editor: Laurie Hill
Narrated by: Matthew Butson

I Met the Walrus-2008

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrators James Braithwaite and Alex Kurina have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. A spellbinding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit and timeless message, I Met the Walrus was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short and won the 2009 Emmy for 'New Approaches' (making it the first film to win an Emmy on behalf of the internet).




Directed by Josh Raskin
Produced by Jerry Levitan
Starring John Lennon
Jerry Levitan
Running time 5 minutes
Country Canada
Language English

More information Official site

Art's Desire (2007)- Sarah Wickliffe

Art's Desire from Sarah Wickliffe on Vimeo.

A character from a cubist painting escapes her war-torn surroundings and explores the museum for a better place to live. Winner of the Gold Student Academy Award for 2007 in Animation, written, directed, and animated by Sarah Wickliffe.

Other Awards and Screenings:

•Winner of Gold Medal for Student Academy Awards, 2007 (screening at AMPAS Theater)

•Winner of Viewer’s Choice Award in Nicktoons Network Animation Festival, August 2007

•Finalist in The Angelus Awards Student Film festival, Los Angeles, California, October 2007

•NYU First Run Film festival- Semi-finalist for Wasserman Award

•ASIFA East Animation Festival- Honorable Mention, Student Films

•Screened at Lincoln Center with live orchestral accompaniment as part of "Toons, Tunes, and Trikfilms" Showcase

•NYU Haig Manoogian Screening at Directors Guild of America

Women in Art

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art

by Philip Scott Johnson
Music: Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007
performed by Yo-Yo Ma


Nominated as Most Creative Video

2nd Annual YouTube Awards

This is Not a Film - The surreal world of René Magritte

An animated journey through the surreal world of René Magritte.

Music is Brahms' Piano Quartet number 1

Another Day on Earth

In England, in his rented shared kitchen in Kilburn, North London, Derek Bass used the last of the milk in his tea ... there was no sugar. The Daily Mail, left behind by another, lay on the table, open at page ten. 'Dianna Rigg To Quit The Avengers' it reported, He turned on the tatty transistor radio, it was playing the number one single 'Something Stupid'. It was just another day on earth.

Another Day on Earth

ArtDirector: FustyBox

Music: A Tale Begun

by: Jan Garbarek & Manu Katché

Creciendo

Creciendo, originally uploaded by [Magec].

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