The Eagleman Stag

The Eagleman Stag by Mikey Please

The Eagleman Stag is 9 mins of outstanding animation beauty. The BAFTA winning, stop-motion piece, created out of handmade foam models tells the tale of Peter Eagleman, an man obsessed by time. The short of the week review sums it up perfectly…

The Eagleman Stag is a rare feat of short filmmaking. Resolutely strange, mysteriously beautiful, Michael Please’s Royal College of Art dissertation + recent BAFTA award-winning film is a masterpiece of both conceptual and technical prowess. Stirring monochrome models and sets pair with a foolishly ambitious, but breathless narrative, to create a whole which is unlike anything you’ve seen before. Epitomizing the promise of the form, The Eagleman Stag is a true realization of short film’s inherent potential to birth works that are not amateur derivations of popular forms, but emergences of the new.

The Eagleman Stag has been recently released online to help promote Mikey Please’s crowdfunding campaign for his latest short Martyn Myller.