Return to Yes

November 7, 2020 4:14 PM

Remember The Creatures of Yes (trailer, particularly good example, previously), the beautifully weird and weirdly beautiful puppet show made using 1970's equipment and techniques? Last week, it returned with an epic short film, Shadow of a Splintered Mind, which leads directly into today's new video, The Road Follows the Undulations of the Countryside, the first in a weekly (Saturday morning, in fact) series.
posted by BiggerJ (7 comments total)

Oh crap, I've just realized that the new episode's narrator is Barnaby Dixon, the man behind Dabchick!
posted by BiggerJ at 4:17 PM on November 7, 2020 [2 favorites]

Just watched "A Comedy of Manners." Quietly surreal, sad, ominous, playful.
posted by doctornemo at 6:46 PM on November 7, 2020 [1 favorite]

Some of the puppets remind me of Salad Fingers.
posted by doctornemo at 6:51 PM on November 7, 2020

The Creatures of Yes! are my happy place.
posted by cjorgensen at 5:06 AM on November 8, 2020 [1 favorite]

Oh. Imagine my disappoint when I learned these are not the creatures that graced the album covers of the band Yes.
posted by Oh_Bobloblaw at 9:01 AM on November 8, 2020 [2 favorites]

Imagine my disappoint when I learned these are not the creatures that graced the album covers of the band Yes.

I was similarly disappointed.

They nonetheless evoke an intriguing alternate history; a show made between Sesame Street and The Dark Crystal, lightly educational but less didactic and targeted at a tween audience, where one segment has guest Jon Anderson expounding his inspiration for Tales From Topographic Oceans to two bewildered fuzzballs.
posted by solarion at 12:29 PM on November 8, 2020

Well, I didn't want to like this. I find most puppets to be creepy. I find THESE puppets to be creepy. Yet, I like it. In spite of the creepiness. Also, I was not disappointed when it turned out not to be related to the band .
posted by evilDoug at 8:45 PM on November 8, 2020 [1 favorite]