Short film competition winners announced

In conjunction with MasterCard and Raindance TV, we recently invited the people of Britain to produce their very own interpretations of the Big Lunch TV ad. The entries spanned a touching combination of humour, emotion, socks, superheroes, balloons and sausages! The shortlisted films then spent the last month fighting for the public’s gaze on YouTube. 

The winner of ‘Best Film’ is Trevor Hardy with his impressive clay animation entitled ‘Let’s Lunch’. The film which drove the most amount of footfall on YouTube was ‘The Green’ by Stephen Gallacher. Both film-makers were presented with well-deserved £1,000 cheques last week at our prize-giving! Both films are charming, clever and genuinely represent brilliant examples of user-generated content. To view the films, click on links below:

‘Let’s Lunch’ 

‘The Green’ 

HELL

Jake & Dinos Chapman: If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be

Jake and Dinos Chapman lost a siginificant amount of their work in the Chalk Farm fire earlier this year. This included arguabely one of their most famous pieces, entitled "HELL". However the brothers have resurrected their vision of "Hell" with this marvelous updated re-creation.

The work consists of 6 large glass cases with models depicting the brothers' take of hell, a hell which the Nazi's are the focus of punishment by super-humans, the like of which the Nazi's revered in their political doctrines.  It is a work of magnitiude and incomprehensible detail that really is worth seeing.

The exhibition also contains other works that highlight the brothers' skill with watercolour and oils. In one room they have re-created Adolfs Hitlers own artwork while adding their own special touches, shall we say.

In short, this exhibition is a "must see", it's free and the link to the gallery is in the title.

Pete