Sinan Sevinç's bigger picture

Most of us would have, at some point, seen the famous photographs that inspired Sinan Sevinç's YDA winning short film, but few may have considered what it would have felt like to be on the other side of the camera. 

This was the concept behind Split Second, an extraordinary film that seamlessly weaves together three separate narratives, each re-imagining the moment-by-moment events that led to the notable historical photographs. 

With thorough attention paid to historical accuracy, the cinematic film, produced by Stink, sets the scene just moments before the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center, an airstrike in the Vietnam War (1972), and the discovery of a child’s body washed up on a Turkish beach (2015) during the Syrian refugee crisis. 

Sevinç ingeniously uses the camera as a framing device through which the viewer observes the event, at the last moment pulling the rug to reveal a split-second sighting of the world-famous image as it appears before them in real-time, inviting the audience to consider what it would have felt like for the photographer and those around them to experience these horrors first-hand.