One Minute from Matthew by Hypatia Pickens

Chapter 2 verse 13. Death and Birth. This would have been my film entry to the One Minute Film Festival had the requirements not been so daunting, and had I started out earlier. This is really a post-Christmas, post Epip...

Chapter 2 verse 13. Death and Birth. This would have been my film entry to the One Minute Film Festival had the requirements not been so daunting, and had I started out earlier. This is really a post-Christmas, post Epiphany machinima--none of the happy creche scenes or the Wise Men or the Star of Bethlehem . The Slaughter of the Innocents is the dark side of the Nativity that few tell, for it's the story of a narrow escape. Mercy, Kindness, Miracle... do they just narrowly escape the world's greed and fear?Music: "Impact Intermezzo," by Kevin MacLeod. Royalty Free under Creative Commons License 3.0. www.incompetech.comThe Second Life art and environments featured here are: The Wastelands, Marcus Inkpen's "The Looking Glass" and "No Sound," The Spencer Museum's "Petrovsky Flux," Milly Sharple's "Time Waits for No Man," Meilo Minotaur's "Delicatessen Petrified Floating Islands" and a castle I bought and installed on my homestead. I guess the rest is history.