"My Country 'Tis of Thee" was the national anthem of the United States.

August 2, 2023 9:01 AM

Analog horror filmmaker Alex Casanas (MISTERMANTICORE) is perhaps best known on YouTube for the Monument Mythos. This is a wide-spanning series of alternate history of the US, past and present, but it mainly focuses on the time of the 37th President, James Dean, and occasionally his best friend, Richard Nixon.
The lore goes three seasons deep, but it begins simply, with the CORNERFOLK, and goes into rich, strange places, some more like short fiction than film -- the LIBERTYLURKER (3:48), the mitosis of Alcatraz (4:07). It's best to take them in order to catch the full scope of exactly what the hell is going on here, which, by turns, is dreadful, hilarious, and heartbreaking -- as when the Ever Given got up and walked away (16:22).

He has begun a new series about the Ningen, a creature of the depths and of the heights from Japanese folklore. It relies not only on archaic video effects but slippage between languages, misunderstandings between humans and humans.

posted by Countess Elena (3 comments total)

I can't watch YouTube at work, but I'll mark this for later. The premise reminds me of "Local58", created by Kris Straub (of chainsawsuit and Candle Cove fame)
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 10:20 AM on August 2, 2023 [1 favorite]

this looks cool. thanks for sharing!
posted by misanthropicsarah at 10:28 AM on August 3, 2023 [1 favorite]

I love that the Monument Mythos sounds so completely ridiculous when you explain what's going on but the presentation is usually pretty immersive.
posted by charred husk at 9:05 AM on August 5, 2023