Some Strange White Stuff

May 8, 2012 5:08 PM

The Eagleman Stag is the 2011 BAFTA award winning Royal College of Art thesis film of director/writer Mikey Please. It's mostly made out of some strange white stuff, found in the back of a stress cushion.
posted by netbros (9 comments total)

Don't know what to say. Left me feeling empty. Not because of the quality of the film, but for what it seems to be saying. Quite excellent.
posted by njohnson23 at 6:09 PM on May 8, 2012

wow, his style and lighting is really nice. beautiful stuff.
posted by fuzzypantalones at 7:24 PM on May 8, 2012

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posted by fuzzypantalones at 7:25 PM on May 8, 2012 [1 favorite]

what it seems to be saying

Seems like a high Modernist meditation on time and memory, like Proust's In Search of Lost Time, but in 9 minutes of foam-animation instead of a 3000 page novel. Which is kind of weird because not many are doing high Modernism these days, but maybe I'm misinterpreting it.
posted by stbalbach at 8:02 PM on May 8, 2012

He recently changed his middle name to Yes.
posted by wjzeng at 3:49 AM on May 9, 2012

Meditations on memory aren't necessarily Modernist.

This was quite enjoyable. Some lovely shots and some lovely concepts. It's fun watching an artist who's figuring out the nature of his obsessions. His new thing looks to be a continuation of those obsessions.
posted by Rory Marinich at 5:46 AM on May 9, 2012

I thought this was really terrific.

I even made an FPP of it.
Which was not very clever of me.
posted by From Bklyn at 8:55 AM on May 9, 2012

Meditations on memory aren't necessarily Modernist.

True, but this one seemed to me like a high Modernist meditation on time and memory, like Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
posted by stbalbach at 2:42 PM on May 9, 2012

Brilliant stuff. Thanks for posting!
posted by Drexen at 3:10 PM on May 9, 2012