Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus is screening at
Odense International Film Festival
Denmark
Aug 17-22

http://filmfestival.dk/

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus is screening at
Rhode Island International Film Festival
USA
Aug 4-9

http://www.film-festival.org/index07A.htm

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus is screening at
Traverse City Film Festival
USA
July 28-Aug 2

http://www.traversecityfilmfest.org/

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus was in competition at
LA Shorts Fest
Los Angeles, USA
July 23-31

http://lashortsfest.com/content.asp?PageID=2

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus was in competition at
Rushes Soho Shorts Festival
London, UK
July 22-31

http://www.sohoshorts.com/#/225

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus was in competition at
SICAF
Seoul, S. Korea
July 22-26

http://www.sicaf.org/2009/index.jsp

Better update these fest listings!

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus screened at
Animamundi
Brasil
July 22-26

http://www.animamundi.com.br/

Director:
Laurie Hill

Some rather FAB news just in

Photograph Of Jesus won the
McLaren Award for Best New British Animation at
Edinburgh International Film Festival
!!!

http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/news/2009/06/and-the-winners

Director:
Laurie Hill

Hey – some cool news in …

Photograph Of Jesus won the
Audience Award for Best Experimental Short at
Maui Film Festival
June 71-21

http://www.mauifilmfestival.com/mffw_awards.php

Director:
Laurie Hill

More luvverly news from the wonderful Seattle International Film Festival …

Photograph Of Jesus is winner of the Grand Jury prize for Best Animated Short!

all the info here:

http://www.siff.net/press/detail.aspx?NID=160&FID=123&year=2009

Director:
Laurie Hill

Some great news in from Backup Festival, Weimar, Germany
Photograph Of Jesus is joint winner of the backup.award

some details here:

http://www.backup-festival.de/en/node/318

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus is in competition at

Los Angeles Film Festival
USA
June 18-28

http://www.lafilmfest.com/2009/

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus is in competition at

Edinburgh International Film Festival
UK
June 17-28

http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus is screening at

Annecy International Animated Film Festival
France
June 8 – 13, 2009

http://www.annecy.org

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus is in competition at

Huesca International Film Festival
Spain
June 4-13

http://www.huesca-filmfestival.com/index_E.html

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus is screening at MoMA in a programme called

Outstanding Short Films from International Festivals

MoMA
Museum Of Modern Art, New York
USA

June 3
7pm

June 4
4pm

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/6713

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus is screening at

VideoEx
Zurich, Switzerland
May 23-31, 2009

http://www.videoex.ch/

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus is screening at

Seattle International Film Festival
USA
May 22-June 15

http://www.seattlefilm.com/festival/index.aspx

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus is screening at

Mountainfilm
USA
May 22-25

http://www.mountainfilm.org/

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus is screening at

Backup
Weimar, Germany
May 21 – 24, 2009

http://www.backup-festival.de/en

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus is on the British Council reel at the

UK Film Centre
Cannes Film Festival, France
May 13-24

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus is in competition at

Stuttgart Festival Of Animated Film
Stuttgart, Germany
May 5 – 10, 2009

http://www.itfs.de/

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus is in competition at

San Francisco International Film Festival
USA
April 23 – May 7, 2009

Blurb from the website:
‘Founded in 1957, the San Francisco International Film Festival is the longest-running film festival in the Americas. ‘

http://www.sffs.org/sf-intl-film-festival.aspx

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus is in competition at

Nashville Film Festival
USA
April 16 – 23, 2009

http://www.nashvillefilmfestival.org

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus screened at

Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art
Helsinki, Finland

‘Best Of Tampere’
Kiasma Theatre
Sat 14.03.2009 06:00 pm

http://www.kiasma.fi

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus fended off some strong competition including ‘Wallace and Gromit – A Matter Of Loaf And Death’ to win Best Animation in the International Competition at Tampere Film Festival!

I was actually there to receive the award too!

Many thanks to the people at Tampere Film Festival for their hospitality and making me feel so welcome. Likewise to the British Council for helping with travel expenses.

Yippee!

http://www.tamperefilmfestival.fi/2009/eng/awarded_2009.htm

Hello,
This is Will, logging in as Ian, after a long hiatus.

I have been working on my site, and would welcome your visit.

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thanks very much for your kind attention.

Yours sincerely,
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aka
wrongboy
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Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus is at

SXSW Film Festival
Austin, USA
March 13 – 21, 2009

Should be screening times here:
http://sxsw.com/film/screenings/schedule/?a=show&s=F14982#

http://sxsw.com/film

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus is competition at

Tampere Film Festival
Tampere, Finland
March 4 – 8, 2009

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 6
Cinema theatre Plevna 2 – Fri, March 6th, 2009 at 10:00
Cinema theatre Plevna 5 – Sat, March 7th, 2009 at 16:00

http://www.tamperefilmfestival.fi/

Director:
Laurie Hill

I’m now represented by Annex Films in the UK for commercials, music promos and digital.

Give them a shout on
+44 (0)207 440 1400

http://www.annexfilms.co.uk

Director:
Laurie Hill

Photograph Of Jesus is now live on the Getty Images website too.
Take a peek here:
http://www.gettyimages.com/Creative/Archive

Director:
Laurie Hill

Some very nice news hot of the press!

Photograph Of Jesus won the Getty Images / Short & Sweet Film Challenge! yippee!

Director:
Laurie Hill

Well I’ve completed a new film!

See the entry below for ‘Photograph Of Jesus’.

Ah – here we go …

here’s a link to a version on youtube (try the ‘higher quality’ setting)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zve2chDhB_4#

and another on vimeo – loses some detail but you can still make out what’s happening

http://www.vimeo.com/2362113

Here’s some more info about how it happened, as reported in Shots:
http://www.shots.net/news_detail.asp?id=4470&WT.mc_id=shots_newsletter_20081113_4470

Director:
Laurie Hill

images courtesy of Getty Images

Film title:
Photograph Of Jesus

Running time:
6 mins 40 secs

Description:
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.

Aspect ratio:
16:9

Language of dialogue:
English

Director:
Laurie Hill

Film title:
La La Song

Band:
The Kissaway Trail

Track title:
La La Song

Record Label:
Bella Union

Running time:
3 mins 5 secs

Description:
Beneath an innocent exterior, this promo for The Kissaway Trail reveals a darker, maggot-ridden heart. Made on a tiny budget, Laurie Hill directs, animates and stars as the cutout runaway in a tale of near-misses, frustration, escape and its repercussions. A stray rocket out of the blue brings disaster, the heavens offer encouragement from afar and a deluge of cockroaches, maggots, dinosaurs and butterflies makes satisfaction an elusive goal. A digital/stop frame collision with plenty of blu-tack.

Extra info:
The idea was to create a surface-level innocent story of escape but then reveal a darker flip side and its repercussions.

Pure cgi can get a bit sterile – and I was really trying to avoid that. I wanted to try a hybrid approach combining computer animation with traditional stop-motion techniques.

I created my main puppet using cutout photographs and wire – I’m sure you can still see some of the blue tack and glue if you look closely enough! But it’s those hand-made touches and glitches that give it vitality and character. I stop-frame animated this and the other found objects against a bluescreen, shooting with a digital stills camera. These were then placed within computer-generated 3d environments made with elements by illustrator Tekura Maeva.

Aspect ratio:
16:9