"The Eagleman Stag" directed by Mikey Please
Picking up a whole slew of awards on the festival circuit in 2011, including the BAFTA and AFI prizes for short-form animation, The Eagleman Stag was created as Mikey Please’s thesis project at the Royal College Of Art. The stop motion figures of the film were created of a foam made of “…some strange white stuff…found in the back of a stress cushion.”
The short film tells the wryly self-conscious story of the life of Peter Eagleman, a man obsessed with the quickening perception of time as he ages and his attempts to counter this effect with the discovery of a never-before-seen beetle that can regenerate its nerve tissue. One of the most visually imaginative films I've ever seen, The Eagleman Stag is a bold piece of art that makes for an oddly affecting film experience.
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