Strange requests made to archives

I meant to blog about this after I came back from my holiday (off in the wilds of Edinburgh, going to the Edinburgh International Film Festival) – ‘Photograph of Jesus’ a short animated film that takes the strange enquiries made to Getty Images’ Hulton Archive and creates a surreal and funny stopmotion collage that travels through the archive’s stacks. The film won the McLaren Award for New British Animation at the EIFF.

Mostly, we don’t get enquiries that are this strange, but somehow it seemed to ring a bell…

Updated 5/8/9: this version is from youtube – I tried to embed a version from the Vimeo video site, but it stopped playing – that version can be found here: Photograph of Jesus by Laurie Hill.