I saw a quick synopsis of this short - animated, BAFTA nominated and revolving around the philosophy of Peter Eagleman , a man who as he gets older becomes aware that aging has an effect on time . Since I've recently been getting in to discussions as to " Does religious faith make you live longer - no it doesn't . It's just that being in a church for an hour seems longer due to its tedious nature " I thought this might be similar to Einstien's theory of relativity where "If you sit on a hot radiator for five minutes it seems like two hours and If you talk to a beautiful woman for two hours it seems like five minutes . That's relativity " but this isn't really the philosophy we got which was very esoteric and despite the velvety tones of David Cann I found the points that were being made very pretentious and not half as clever as it likes to think it may be
That said I don't think if Michael Please is putting forward any sort of life changing manifesto and it's all a showcase of the animation . Interesting that The Short Of The Week website brought our attention to the animation by saying they weren't going to mention the animation under any circumstances ! Obviously everyone keeps the technique secret in the same way Coca Cola wants to keep their brand name formula a secret . You quickly find yourself asking what indeed is this technique . It isn't quite CGI , it isn't quite Claymation and it isn't quite stop frame animation . It's so unusual that you find yourself forgetting everything and asking what is it ? which is to its own detriment . It's easy to admire and I've no idea how much of it was achieved but I do know some of the techniques such as including shadow in the images and how often do you see shadows in animation ? but over all THE EAGLEMAN STAG is unsatisfying