The smallest shortest film

Perforation type: 9x9

Subject:

5 (value of the stamp is not known, but it was sold by 2.2 euros).

A young woman with a windmill on the background, bites male finger

Additional:

*TNT postal service asked Kessels Kramer to create a new innovation for stamps. The result is the ‘smallest shortest films’, a one second film that was cut in 30 stills to show as a set of stamps.

The film, launched during the 30th anniversary of the Dutch Film Festival in September, was directed by Anton Corbijn, a world famous Dutch photographer – though at the moment he is especially hot for having directed George Clooney without clothes in The American.

The model in front of the windmill is Carice van Houten. She played Tom Cruise’s wife in Valkyrie and is Holland’s most successful actress. The image was inspired by a Dutch stamp from 1951 by Cas Oorthuys. Corbijn made a few one second films, but chose this one because it gives the traditional setting a bit of an edge. To get these people to work on your project is quite a smart way to create some PR around it. Nice work.

 

Basic information was taken on the webpage Amsterdam AD Blog
Video-clip you can see here