At one point in the film some enormous pink worms come out of the ground unexpectedly and they have to escape again.
Please forgive me for the vague details.. this almost 20 years ago and I last watched it when I was maybe 12 years old! It was on VHS.
Not your typical tipofmytongue, because I actually have the video, but it is so severly compressed that I can't make out the username of the user in the video. I have some sort of primal need to find the original video, so if anyone knows the original poster, can make out the username in the video, or can find a slightly better version of the video where you can make it out, I'd be forever grateful.
In the 1979 blue film Tropic of Desire from Vinegar Syndrome there's a black and white silent stag film playing during the orgy scene of a woman performing various off the cuff erotic acts, like smoking a cigarette in an unconventional way. I couldn't find the name of the film in the credits or online, where to find it, or even the general date it was from. Does anyone know anything about it? I'm dying to see the full version, I can send or post screengrabs if that helps too.
Also, how long were stag films allowed to go unregulated?
I heard John Wayne Gacy would watch stag films with boys from the JayCees and his construction company. Is it like softcore porn? Isn't it considered "gay" to watch porn with other guys?
I am beginning to believe that the short film is the perfect medium to explore a single, pure concept in a way that a feature film never could without diluting the purity of the idea. Anyway last night I stumbled across this http://www.theeaglemanstag.com/ , Mikey Please's The Eagleman Stag.
I consider The Eagleman Stag to be a perfect short film, from its merticulous foam stop motion to it's nuanced exploration of human nature.
The Eagleman Stag is about the value of time and in extentsion about how one is to value life. The Film explores the concept of aging and how this process subsequently alters one's reality, this much is obvious. However what I struggle with, and this has kept me up at night, is what is the more nuanced explanation of the film?
I wish to ask you all for the answers to a few questions I have about a deeper analysis of the film:
- What is the purpose of The Eagleman Stag itself? why is the beetle, and the symbols it evokes, so important to the overall message?
- What can we take from Eagleman's discovery of the beetle and it's regenerative abilities?
- What does the ending of the film suggest about ones conception of time and indeed about the nature of reality itself?
- What is the importance of each particular scenes the narrator places specific importance on?
- What does the film aim to ultimately prove to an audience?
I trawled through pages of crap analysis of the short film, each review spoke of how the film had touched them, both visually and intellectually, yet no one provided a detailed, philosophical analysis as to why it is such a potent film. Perhaps one of you can succeed where others, myself included, have failed?
EDIT: Upon a fourth viewing I believe I have made something of a breakthrough with regards to the ending. He is injected with the Eagleman Stag's biology and is thus able to see life and time objectively. "everything I have ever said can be compressed into a single word" and how he becomes an inanimate object surrounded by thousands of others is really a commentary about the insignificance of personal experience. For in that moment of object truth he is nought but an "inanimate object." I believe that the films final scene is a picture of the afterlife, an afterlife in which Peter forgets everything once again. It is only in forgetting everything, especially the knowledge of his insignificance, that he is able to obtain a small amount of meaning.
