It starts as just another rather unassuming Vimeo HD short film until you hear this man speak. Ray Winstone was in his yard in Hammersmith as a young man when he was struck by lightning. He survived, and this film literally explodes within his description of how incredible living is now that he’s been spared. It will knock your socks off, shoot through you, and infect your brains. And in just six minutes!

Just things that happen, you know. I was a teenage kid, 1974, 17 years of age. I was in my dads yard, I was soaking wet, you know I’d been out in the rain. The transformer on the carriage exploded, and uh, I had this incredible sense of a bright light. A flash.

It makes you think how beautiful and wonderful life is. That’s why every day to me is a very special day. When I look at my kids and I look in the garden and I see the rabbits running around…I like travelling and seeing the world.

Acclaimed film director John Hillcoat, whose last major motion picture feature was the critically heralded ‘The Road’, directs the first video for UNKLE’s ‘The Answer’. His vision begins with Ray Winstone (The Departed, Sexy Beast, Cold Mountain) relaying a memory from years past.